My snake still hasn't ate!

For those of us just learning, you will easily find information telling you to feed in a separate container rather than in their own enclosure. Main reasons are the myth that the snake will associate your hand with food as well as accidental ingestion of substrate (most people just starting prefer aesthetics and don't want newspaper substrate). Simple searches on youtube of people feeding ball pythons also show snakes feeding in separate containers. Until I got information on this forum, I thought that's what most people did. But even on this forum, a recent poll showed that about 25% of those surveyed feed their snakes in a separate container.

Just as a side note, I have a 1200g female I bought 5 weeks ago and she still hasn't eaten, pooped or shed. She looks healthy though and I'm going to try feeding her again this weekend :)