How long can young ones go w/o eating?

[DVirginiana]

Not having an issue getting mine to eat or anything, but my Moose has refused food several days past her scheduled weekly feeding and it made me wonder how long young ball pythons can safely go without eating. I'm not worried right now; it hasn't been very long and she's not acting funny. Not sure exactly how old she is, but I'm guessing between around 6 months. I guess, what I'm asking is about how long would you guys let such a young one go without eating before you starting to worry?
It's just one of the things it'd be good to know so no health issues creep up on me since I'm pretty new to constrictors.

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I have babies that Have had one meal since their hatch date in June. Force feeding now but I let it go probably later than I should have, really wanted to avoid the FF trauma.

[DVirginiana]

So, for one that's around 6 months, when would you say it'd be reasonable to worry? Like, two weeks, three weeks, a month?
My other snakes are primarily fish and worm eaters, so their metabolism runs pretty quick. I figure a python doesn't run through its reserves quite so quickly, but I don't really have any experience to base it on.

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At 6 months they are usually 400-600 grams. They don't usually go off feed at that age unless there is an issue with their husbandry. How does his set-up look? I move my BP's up in bin size if they stop eating when their younger, and/or I assess their heat and humidity levels to see if there is an issue there. 2 months isn't usually a big deal but for a BP that age I wouldn't be comfortable if they went off feed for more than that.

[DVirginiana]

Okay, thanks. She hasn't even gone two weeks without eating yet, so I'm not worried at this point. I figured that would be no big deal for a pythonsince their metabolism is much slower than the reptiles I'm used to working with (if one of my young garters goes two weeks without eating it means there's probably a serious problem). It was mainly curiosity about when to start worrying.

Right now, her tub is pretty small with a hide filled with damp sphagnum moss (changed fairly often) to keep humidity up. The floor temps on the warm side range from 85-90 and the cooler side is around 81-83. At the moment she is under a heat lamp, as I was having some issues with getting the heat mat and thermostat working in what I want to be her longer-term tub (I'm going to use cypress mulch bedding for that). It's taken me a bit to get everything together as she was a surprise rescue from a local petco. She was up for adoption for biting people, and when I got there she had a badly retained shed which they refused to treat. Figured she'd be better off waiting a few weeks for me to get things right than dying there
I actually think I got the thermostat and everything working right earlier today, so now it's just on a test run for a day or so to make sure.