Asfs are good not only because they jump start your snake, but are also non addicting 95% of the time unlike Gerbils.
Ive never heard of that, I think the store owner did not have many facts or truth behind that claim.
Honestly, I would just let her be. Shes big, shes older, and is just taking a break from eating. It happens, they do that. I had a little female under 300 grams not eat for a YEAR! Youd think I would have freaked out but she did not loose hardly any weight and I kept saying I was going to try desperate measures after a year if she didnt eat after trying ASF's rats and mice with no luck and a bookfull of other tricks, and she ate the month it hit a year![]()