I feed fresh killed mice. Recently I had a problem with my normal ball python female. Recently I mean up until an hour ago. She hasn't eaten since October 8th. I have tried everything from live, f/t, asf trickery, to I just read a forum for force feeding and it was talking blah blah blah about them coming from africa and they eat gerbils. Well bam, tagged and swallowed in 45 seconds.