Quote Originally Posted by DooLittle View Post
1300 grams, I wouldn't worry too much. You are probably more worried about it than her. What size tub is she in, how many and what kind of hides? How often do you handle her? I wouldn't handle or bathe her before a feeding attempt. Also, how often are you offering food? Too frequently can stress her out too. I'd try cluttering up her tank with more hides or crumpled news paper, and just leave her alone for 2 weeks. Then try offering food. Personally I'd offer live. But I know that's not for everybody.
She's in a 20 gal long with the back, left side and most of the top covered. (Natural light comes from the window on the far right side of the office, so I haven't covered that end.) There's a ceramic heat bulb above with an ambient of 80F and a UTH on the right set at 90F. Humidity is nice and steady at 60%. She has a hide on the right over the UTH and several large cork logs tetrised together on the left (her cool hides/jungle gym) and a water dish in the center under the ceramic bulb. We offer food every Sunday night, but she's large enough it might be time to back her down to 8-10 days. We've reduced how often we handle her to no more than a couple times a week since she's been on strike and really only have her out when she wants to come out on her own. (If she's nosing around the top we'll open it up and let her crawl out to us. In fact she gets frustrated and keeps poking then staring at us if we DON'T get her out.) Oh, and she's on aspen.

I would prefer not to feed live just because I don't want to risk her getting chewed on, but the real deal breaker is that we simply cannot keep any animals with fur or feathers in our home. My son's allergies were the reason we decided to get a snake in the first place. Bringing home a live rat or mouse and feeding her wouldn't be a big deal, but if she refused it, I'd be stuck with it. That's why I've been thinking about trying a live pinkie just to try to trigger a feeding response. If she turned it down, I could just give it to our little garbage disposal of a sand boa!