i just realized something.

[Lolo76]

All females are different, but what I've seen is that they'll typically eat after cool down, locking up, and pre-ovulation shed. When they glow, they may still be eating. Keep pairing males with your girl until she refuses his advances. She'll start refusing food around this time as well. Just wait for her to tell you when she doesn't want to eat.

Good advice. I've only bred one clutch thus far, so I'm no expert... but with my one clutch, this was basically the process I noticed! Mona (the mom) is usually a good feeder, and she stopped eating between the pre-ov shed & ovulation - which was very obvious in her case (looked like she'd eaten a rabbit, LOL).

You know what might help, sookieball? I keep very good records on my snakes, so you should check out Mona's iHerp breeding entry: http://www.iherp.com/HerpTrack/Breed...ingRecord=1418

Then look at her general records for that time period, and see when she stopped eating, shed, etc: http://www.iherp.com/HerpTrack/Track...AnimalID=25982 (scroll down to March-June 2010)