Good Day Guys~
I'm incredibly new to this site and moderately new to ball pythons so please forgive me ahead of time. So, I got a little normal hatchling back in January. Her name is Mjölner and she's about 4 months old now. She's been eating small rats every Sunday up until about 4 weeks ago (she was on pinkys and graduated up to this point). She's had 3 solid healthy sheds and the 3rd one took place yesterday. Every feeding is live and very closely monitored. I used to do feeding in a separate enclosure until it got to be a bit to much to be going back and forth so now it's all in cage. Right now her cage is 90 on the hot side, ambient of 80, 65% humidity. (Someone please help me with that too because I'm seeing humidity numbers all over the place on the Internet and I want a solid number I've seen 60 - 70 and 80 solid. I've had it at 80 up until recently). So, now that I've said all of that... The thing is about 4 weeks ago I thought she wasn't fulfilled by one small. She seemed to want more before the next feed so I tried to get two. She didn't eat either of them that Sunday. I tried to offer every day after that during the night, she didn't want it. About a week later she ate the smaller rat. The weird thing was that she didn't strike. She let it sit there, slowly grabbed it behind the neck, and then slowly coiled it. She ate it. Last week the local store I went to didn't have live so I tried desperately to feed thawed. After about an hour, and a very tired arm I just let it go. She was ignoring me long after slithering away. Here I am the next week. I've got a live one she seemed a little interested since she had just shed. However, she's not striking she comes at it like she just wants to pet it >.> so to say. So the rat is sleeping in the corner and my ball python looks incredibly bored and just chilling. She doesn't look dehydrated or under weight. I believe she's about a foot and a half long but I feel like she's too young to just be going off food like that. Can someone answer as to why she's eating like that or tell me what I'm doing wrong.