I'd cringe if my females stopped eating that early in the season, they NEED to put weight on to successfully drop good pearly white eggs.
Most of my females will eat right up to about a month before they ovulate.
Some males will eat year around and could care less if it's breeding season and others shut off their food drive for the breeding season.
My clown, black pastel and yellowbelly males never stopped eating this year but the lesser stopped in December is now pulled from breeding due to weight loss.
If I want a male to return to eating after breeding I put him in another part of the house, give him a hide(something I normally don't offer my snakes in tubs) and give him time to settle in and then offer food a week or so after removing him from the snake room.
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