Hi guys! So I am going to give you every bit of info I have and hopefully y'all can help me come up with a solution.

My snake is a lesser pastel about 6 months old, 24 inches long, 300 grams completely empty as of yesterday.

My setup is as follows.



It is a 20 gallon long with cypress mulch, two hides identical except in color, a water bowl, a UTH connected to a Hygrotherm and a ReptiFogger connected to same Hygrotherm. The back, 2/3rds of the front, and 1/4th of the sides are covered for privacy, because the tank is about 1.5 feet off the floor and I have 2 cats who barely look at her. Most of the top is covered with foil along with the Reptifogger hose and a red halogen heat light.







The Hygrotherm sensor is in the warm hide set against the glass. The sensor is set to adjust the heat to 95 degrees and the humidity to 55%. (Also my snake was not enthused to be disturbed for pictures.)



I took readings just now and while the sensor reads 95 degrees the infrared temp checker reads between 89 and 91 in the hot hide, with it pointed towards the bottom bedding. My bedding is maybe a 1/4 of an inch thick. The humidity read in at 54%, and the cool side read between 78-80 degrees in different spots in the cool hide.

Now that's the setup. Here's the history.

Tiny Snake (or Tanith) has done this once before. She went into shed a few months ago eating f/t readily, had a rough shed (Pre fogger) which I had to help her remove the lower half. And then stopped eating for two months. I switched to live and she began eating again. I have always fed in her enclosure.

Fast forward to now. She shed almost 2 weeks ago. She started shedding inside my tank top (while I was wearing it) and the bottom half came off easy like that. I didn't notice until the bottom half was done..... Then I put her back in her tank and waited. After a couple hours of her ignoring the rest of her shed I soaked her and peeled it off very slowly, very carefully, very gently. I picked up her usual 2 large mice the next day (my breeders rats are still too large). And she refused to eat them. Didn't react at all. So now I have 2 mice in a hamster cage... And nearly two weeks later I have tried every few days to feed her, I avoid handling 24 hours prior, and go in at night, mostly in the dark to feed. Yesterday the best she did was flick her tongue alot and watch the mouse. If they get close to her face she backs away fully into her hide.

I am worried because she is so young, and my breeder John of Tails and Scales in Derby, KS said last time that it is kinda unusual for one so young to go off feed. Now that this is happening again I figured I would see what people had to say, and hopefully at least get some reassurance if not some answers.