Ok so thought i would post an update at need what my next step should be. Based on posts from those who replied i set the tank up with the heating pad attached to a stat. The probe for that is laying on the glass under the substrate. I have the hide over the pad with a thermometer probe in that hide over the substrate. I then have thermo/humidty one inside the tank on the far end of the cool side along with a third thermometer with the probe inside the cool hide. My temps on the pad are set at 89 so the stat kicks the pad on at 87 and off at 91 the probe above the substrate will read 87 to 89. The cold side im keeping at about 85. It does fluctuate a couple degrees with the temps of the day but i got a bigger heat lamp which is now helping keep it more controlled. I then waited a week since her last attempt at feeding. She has still yet to eat and it is now two weeks in. Shes straight up coils away from food and either curls up into her hide or takes off in the opposite direction. Wondering what my next option is, short of returning her, and when i should attempt that option. This is particularly frustrating given how much i paid for this snake and the fact that i have never had a ball python not feed. And this is by far the best set up i have ever had for any of my animals. Oh and based on the feed record from the store its been 22 days since shes eaten
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