Ball hasn't eaten for 2 months

Hi all, my ball is a shy creature but she always eats, last few months she has acted like she almost can't see the food.

She comes out looks around near the rat, stares at it for a few secs then continues to look around, I have tried to leave it in there but the rat is still there in the morning.

All temps etc are fine and she is otherwise healthy (hasn't pooped for ages but I'm sure that is down to lack of food)

Any advice

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Can you tell us about your enclosure and set up please. Also, what are your warm side and cool side temps, and how are you measuring them? Are you feeding F/T or live?

I'll take a pic, I only measure the ambient temperature as I only have one thermometer at the moment but the heat mat thermostat is set for 32.c

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And I'm feeding f/t

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What's the weight? And is there any weight loss? One of mine went off feed for 11 months when he hit about 1000grams.

I haven't weighed her, I will do that shortly but I would say she is about 1000g

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Its just me or that little guy doesnt seem to be 1000g
It looks like a hatchling to me
maybe because i only can see the head lol

Mine just took a rat this week after refusing since last August. It happens. If the numbers are indeed good and the snakes weight is holding I would say you may have entered a common time in a BPs life where they drive their owner crazy refusing to eat. Mine doesn't bother me as I have others that well take care of refused rats. Wasting rats drives me nuts.

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Originally Posted by KMG

Mine just took a rat this week after refusing since last August. It happens. If the numbers are indeed good and the snakes weight is holding I would say you may have entered a common time in a BPs life where they drive their owner crazy refusing to eat. Mine doesn't bother me as I have others that well take care of refused rats. Wasting rats drives me nuts.

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Best reason to buy more!

Ours has eaten twice in the last year. Get used to it.

95% of the time there is nothing wrong with the animal.

It's well documented that they refuse food, and if you search around on the forum you'll find several threads just like this one.

Wait it out and your snake will eventually eat.

Maybe get yourself a king snake, retic or boa constrictor to help with cleanup LOL!

Love the post above .

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Originally Posted by Gio

Ours has eaten twice in the last year. Get used to it.

95% of the time there is nothing wrong with the animal.

It's well documented that they refuse food, and if you search around on the forum you'll find several threads just like this one.

Wait it out and your snake will eventually eat.

Maybe get yourself a king snake, retic or boa constrictor to help with cleanup LOL!

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Any excuse to get another snake, I was considering a boa

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Originally Posted by fLako0aGuiiLaR

Its just me or that little guy doesnt seem to be 1000g
It looks like a hatchling to me
maybe because i only can see the head lol

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Haha yea that's just her head, she is about 3 1/2ft long

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Mine hasn't eaten since Oct or Nov, don't remember now as I don't really pay attention lol. I offer her food every 2-3 weeks when its my boas feeding time and if she decides to take one, i'll run down to the reptile shop and pick up another rat for my sunglow gal as my BP and sunglow eat the same size rat. If not, well no loss. I wouldn't worry about it unless the snake starts losing noticeable weight.

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Mine hasn't eaten since Oct or Nov, don't remember now as I don't really pay attention lol. I offer her food every 2-3 weeks when its my boas feeding time and if she decides to take one, i'll run down to the reptile shop and pick up another rat for my sunglow gal as my BP and sunglow eat the same size rat. If not, well no loss. I wouldn't worry about it unless the snake starts losing noticeable weight.

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^ This^

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Originally Posted by fLako0aGuiiLaR

Its just me or that little guy doesnt seem to be 1000g
It looks like a hatchling to me
maybe because i only can see the head lol

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I think because those hides I usually only see for smaller snakes, so comparing to hide and bowl it looks kind of small, but compared to the cereal box, yea his head is big enough to have a 1000g body. It was kind of hard for me to unsee the head being so tiny lol