About four months ago, I recieved a female ball python. She has the standard morph and is around 3.5 feet long. Unfortunately, I don't have her age.

We have tried just about everything to get her to eat. F/T mice in both white and brown, live mice, live rats. What we're currently trying is F/T rats, I know they're the right size because I have a friend who breeds them and he came over to give me advice. A technique he gave me is to dangle the rat above the snake's head and move it around, then touch her on the nose with it, we have tried that. He also told us to put the snake in a smaller bin (also heated) with the rat for 36 hours. Neither have worked.

She doesn't seem interested in anything. She won't strike, or even examine any food we try and give her.

She doesn't seem sick. She isn't lethargic, and she does move around her tank, mostly at night, and uses the hides we have in there frequently, and she drinks water.

The substrate I use is ZooMed's Aspen Bedding. The hotspot is set at 87, and the rest is around 76. The two hides are a half log and a fake rock that is hollow. We bought them at a pet store.

The former owner did not tell us what she had been eating, and unfortunately we have lost contact with him.

She has shed since I received her, and it went fine. That was about a month ago.