Quote Originally Posted by Borgpython View Post
Bp's sometimes go on hunger strikes, reasons could vary, sometimes they just dont feel like eating, sometimes it could be stress from their environment/enclosure (temps/humidity etc).
But they will survive not eating for a couple or a few months, just make sure to offer every week. But watch out for drastic weight loss (need a scale for this, 5000g scale recommended) and watch if the stomach looks like its sucked in, means your snake is definitely starving to death and then you have a problem.
I'd agree with all the above and add to watch out for the snake getting dull and wrinkly fairly quickly , that can be dehydration which is easily remedied with a decent soak in an enclose /secure tub of water for half an hour .

It's important to allow for Royals to go "off" their food as many do and quite regularly and for long periods . The record for a snake going without food is 20 months ( one year AND eight months ) .... Not surprisingly it was a Royal python who hardly lost any weight , wasn't in this case dehydrated and was in perfect health , it started eating normally

Another thing I think about Royals is that MANY just don't like eating every 7 days as many keepers prefer to do , many Royal keepers may well be better offering them food every two weeks or so and even then be prepared for long periods of not eating .