Hey everyone, its been a while since i have posted here, been busy with a move and other real life issues so i didnt have a lot of free time as of late.

Anyway here goes..

Iv had a ball python for a little over a year now and everything has been great, she loves her home and has never given me any problems with eating at all. But as of late she is becoming more finicky about eating. She has been on 2 mice for quite some time now, and since i got her( she was no bigger then a pencil) she was always fed in a feeding box and showed abslolutly no signs of anything unusual.

In the past few weeks she has been giving me a little bit of a problem eating. When i put a mouse in the box with her( feeding box) she seems to show absolutly no interest in the mouse what so ever. Some times she would only eat one, sometimes she ate none. In the case when she ate one i would have to keep the other mouse overnight, try the next day and she ate it.

So tonight i tried again, and again when i dropped the mouse into the box she showed no iterest. So tonight i tried to feed her in the cage after she did not show any interest in the hide box, and boom she snatched both of them up in no time.

Now i know that some of you will say what is the problem, but my concern with feeding in the tank is that she will eventually assiciate my hand coming into the take as possible prey when she is hungry and possibly become mean and snippy. To this point she has NEVER snipped, bit or even looked like she would strike anything. She dose not mind my other animals in the house or any human. And i would really like to keep her that way.

I have herd some talk of this being true, then others tell me that it really don't have have much effect. But i would like some solid info on this. Also it is dead winter here ( jan ) and i have herd that some snakes eat less in the winter time but this has never been a factor for me.

Anyone that can shed some light on this issue for me would be great! thanks.