Okay here it is all the information necessary for you guys to understand my situation so my problem feeding can be everybodys to solve as I cannot solve it and feel defeated. I have a female ball python that weighs 530g. She has been off feed for at least 5-7 weeks now. I reaction to this I have done a couple of things I have tried pre killing her prey. I have tried frozen thawed. I have tried twice frozen thawed. I have tried the method of using tongs that adam with 8 ball pythons has reccomended in his video. I have supplied another hide which hasn't been used by her in the day and a half it has been in there. I have the warm side temp about 93 average and the cold side around 84. I have an ambient temp around 77 right now. Humidity runs around 60%. The cage is in my room not in the living room so noise factor is not to bad. Now the last time she ate she ate a rat I would estimate was around 60-70 grams. I threw it in there covered her cage and she took care of it. Recently I have tried to downsize her food in order to get her to eat and the last item I tried was a 45g live rat and I used tongs to offer it to her. A couple of things I may have done wrong. I first tried pre scenting the room but first off I'm unsure how to do it being that it is a glass enclosure fairly sealed off I don't think one rat in the room will do much as far as scent goes so I opened the cage and threw in a tiny piece of cloth that was in my rats cage. An hour later she still had not come out of her hide. So to try to feed her I removed her hide and offered the rat to her. She did not take it so I moved it a little closer. Eventually she defensively struck at it and did not take it. Alright help me out please. By the way here are some pics of my cage. The log hide is the warm side and she loves it. The second one is a large pop tart box in the middle of the cage where the cage is about 84 then the water dish is in the ambient temperature range of 76 or so. I use undertank heaters.
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