This is out first year pairing our ball pythons and just like everything else you learn as you go and things become much more familiar each time. We are pairing 6 females this year. 3 are proven and 3 are virgins. I'm trying to understand how the weights are supposed to look as far as changing during the process.

The proven girls were slamming food all fall long and got huge. Almost double what they were in some cases. They looked big and healthy when we started pairing them. After a couple pairings they mainly stopped feeding and are building. The others were eating normally but started eating a lot after being paired but after a month or so stopped eating too. None of them are currently eating except for 1 and she just started getting paired last month.

Now my main question is what is the typical weight change between when they stop eating and up to and through the ovulation period. Obviously they are going to drop a bunch of weight when they drop eggs but what about the development. I'd imagine they couldn't gain any weight as they aren't eating. So what should it typically look like?