What time of day do you try to feed? I try to feed late at night, as late as I can. If I fed in the mornings they would never eat LOL. Going off of food is totally normal for a ball python, I have some that go weeks without feeding, sometimes even months. Usually once they hit the 1000 gram mark they will stop for a couple months or so. Then it picks up until they are about 1500 grams and then they seem to go into the breeding cycle no matter if you pair them up or not and they stop again. The good thing about having multiple snakes is that I can start feeding my picky feeders or non-eaters first. If they don't eat I move on to the aggressive eaters. Works great and I almost never end up with an uneaten rat. I also have a couple reticulated pythons, they were eating all the left over rats but now they are too big and they only eat the large adult rats that are too big for my ball pythons LOL. Seems like ball pythons will go through a growth spurt and eat a lot, then just stop eating. Seems to me like they are letting their head size catch up with their body growth LOL.
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