I've covered most of her tub with a cloth and gave her two hides. I can check Petco/Petsmart for mulch. Does the offering ONLY every 5-7 days really make a difference? For example we'll offer a prey item to a ball python, and lets say they deny it. Next day we'll try a different prey item and they'll eat it right away. They don't seem to care about the previous day's denial. I've just never really had a ball python that took the same prey item we've been offering just because we waited 7+ days before trying to give it to them again. Usually it's switching to mice or live that get them eating again. Have a big girl that would eat live for us, but refused F/T for TEN months. I'm confident she would have eaten live and making her hungry/leaving her alone didn't do the trick switching her to F/T.