Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
How large is your tank? The cool side needs to be 80-82 degrees, the lower end of the 70's is far too cool. At 150 grams, he doesn't need to be in an enclosure any larger than 10 gallons at this point. Have you reviewed the "Why won't my snake eat" portion of our ball python care sheet to rule out each reason one by one yet?
The tank is 10 gallons. Yes, I've read through that care sheet and we seem to OK on all the points, except for the cool temp. That is a problem because if we use the overhead heating lamp, the humidity drops from 70ish% to about 40ish%. How else can we raise that end to 80 degrees?

HOWEVAH... our snake has been in the cool hide for nearly a week now. I'll start a separate thread to ask about that.

The belly is definitely pink, so perhaps that's the reason for not eating. However, it's been devouring its food up till this past week during its prior shed, with the low temp in the 70s, and with everything as it's been. These stress symptoms seemed to have come from out of nowhere.

The behaviors that you have described are of a ball python that's looking for weaknesses in its enclosure in order to try to escape (the constant climbing up the walls).
That's exactly what it looks like. I'll try your suggestion of crumpled newspapers. Thanks!