Still having trouble getting a young one to eat...

Whenever we have to do the brown bag or box (for our larger snakes) we put them in a closet, closed off and far away from everything else. Maybe this will help? How often are you checking on him? Our picky eater pastel has to be in a box, in a closet, on the other side of the house and left alone for almost three hours to eat. It's a pain, but at least he eats. If we open the box, the whole process seems like it has to start over.

... I've tried things like moving the rat and warming it.

So far I've been leaving her in her enclosure in the bag mainly because I'm hesitant to move her away from her heat sources. I have a room dedicated to the reptiles, so nothing is going on around them as far as people/dogs walking around goes. I could try elevating her off the ground (I have a tub no one's in that's on a PVC pipe rack off the ground) so that she doesn't pick up on vibrations while she's in the bag though. Maybe leave her in that for several hours. Still going to wait another day to give her some time to calm down first.

The thing that confuses me is that she readily took food the first two weeks I had her, and her habitat parameters are spot on. She's not acting stressed or anything... But the store I adopted her from had no clue what they were doing. I hope this is just a hunger strike, and not a health issue.

I would say wait a few days go to the pet store and get a live "pet" mouse. At 6-8 months what's her weight? I hadn't seen it posted so maybe missed it.

I'd try getting a 'pet' mouse or rat for her, but the size she's been eating is smaller than anything they sell around here, as they only sell fully grown mice and rats... I may be able to get some from the herp vet though. The practice caters solely to exotics, so I imagine they understand that sometimes feeding live is the only option.

I would give that a try

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I don't have access to live feeders where I'm at. The pet stores only sell adult mice/rats which are too big, and it is illegal to sell mammals as feeders so I can't buy a baby one to give her.

I'll give it till the end of this week, then set up an appointment with my herp vet; I'm pretty sure they have access to live feeders, especially since they do a fair bit of wild-animal rescue work. I know they sell f/t, so they may be able to get me a live feeder.