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    Re: Adult Not Eating for First Time

    Though still learning myself (we never stop learning), I have heard many, many times...even from top breeders....it's not uncommon for Balls to go off feed for weeks, months...or even a year (though not very common for that long). As long as your husbandry is good, it may be because of shed, mating season, winter, illness, or they just might not be hungry. As others have mentioned, just keep an eye out for illness, get a scale and make sure he's not losing large amounts of weight....otherwise snakes are snakes...and if you're doing the best you can with GOOD information, just let him be a snake. He'll eat eventually.

    In the following YouTube video, you can hear this BP owner who has a handful of larger adults say one of his was off feed for nearly a year:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIngd7qD36w
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