Quote Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny View Post
I would not move her to board at a local pet store. That move will probably reset her "acclimating clock" and you will have to wait even longer. Not to mention, some pet store people can be dumb when it comes to fasting ball pythons.

Make her tub as dark and secure as possible (give her an extra hide if you have to). I would just tape dark construction paper over the outside of the tub. Something another breeder recommended to me when the girls were fasting (though I never tried it) was to ball up newspaper and throw the balls of newspaper into the tub to take up space. No personal experience with this one but you could try it. At the size she is, not feeding for a few weeks won't hurt her. One of the girls I had was around 800-900 when she came home and she went 4 months without ill effects so your girl should be fine. You may not be able to breed her this season but I think the most important thing would be to get her eating first.

You're on point. I have used the newspaper trick with my female het pied and she kills the rat and place it in her water bowl and then come back for it overnight. The pet store is the East Bay Vivarium. There is a guy name Michael who can get a dead ball to eat a jumbo rat. He is really good. In the past he has gotten balls that were off feed to eat for me. I understand how that will be another change of scenery for her again that would be the last case scenario. I want to breed her next season. The '10/'11 season. If she was on feed eating rats I would have tried to get 800 grams on her before next cooling season.