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Ok, to make it lil ez on you.. I understand what Craig is trying to say … it is hard to follow you here but I’ll try; what I do is copy and paste off word lol. But for here I just try to eliminate the corn snake and your being weird and you’ll be fine lol… no offense but that’s not the issue here…
- Did the snake eat the last rat that you offered? – when she almost bit you, if so don’t offer again for the 10-14 days like El-ziggy suggested, and allow for her appetite to build (where they will take anything) & a more constant feeding response. Try to reduce or eliminate handling until 2-3 meals are eaten – maybe a poops or 2 hopefully by then
1A) I would avoid assist feeding, especially if you’re not familiar with the struggles and side effects of it, there are threads you can read, but it can caused issues with regurge and even longer fasting… 1B) I would advise you to never try putting your hand in the snakes enclosure during feeding time, with it smelling like rodent, &/or with a rodent in the same enclosure! Not a good idea … Snake bites are not a joking matter as it hurts you and can cause loos of teeth for them, which could cause an infection in their mouths and you’ll have a whole issue that could’ve been avoided with a pair of long tongs, not to mention if you don’t treat your bite, you can get a nasty infection
- Is your husbandry is all on point?- think of this like going to the doctors, (experienced reptile owners, with years under their belts) if they don’t know what’s hurting you (your snake) they can’t help diagnosis you, or treat you.
So if they are spot on, like anyone can look at other threads and see what temps will keep the mediators off your butt with too low temps/high temps. Make sure they are accurate – thermal gun, bio-/ digital thermometer, and all heating elements attached to thermostat (a good brand 1 as a cheap brand may cost you eventually – trust me I know) humidity is high enough for their comfort.. You said 60% I believe that is fair, just check, check and double check you can never be too sure 
- If she takes a while to get back on the food train, give her some time, you are new to the snake; it is new to the new-new enclosure you just switched her to. The assist feeding was probably traumatic AF for her, and she is probably just really stressed out. Give her some time and hopefully she will bounce back. When I switched my spell I waited 2 weeks to feed her, and I immediately switched to F/T sm rats and she has never looked back
So long story short, don’t feed her or offer food for at least a week. If her last meal was Aug 17, new enclosure Aug 19… its been a month… so if you offered today 9/19/18, and she eats, I’d wait 10 days before offering again – 9/29/18, if she does not eat, giver her 14 days before offering again -10/3/18
Quick lil anecdote, I have a baby GHI male, 170gs when I got him, when he ate his 1st live hopper he was about 156gs, almost 3 months later!! I tried F/T 1st, no dice, did not contact his breeder until the 2nd month, as I was waiting him out – he ate 1 F/T during the almost 3 months he didn’t eat. But if you look at up some BP’s longest fast, you will be surprised
I don’t not want to say that there is nothing wrong with your animal, as this is not too abnormal for what you have described so far… but if all details are presented as you stated; Husbandry, when you got her, how long you have had her in your care, what methods you have used so far... if you have no communication with her breeder(previous owner) you may just have to play the waiting game.
I doubt there will be anything besides a vet visit that could help you figure this issue out (even then you may need some poop) but I am still a novice with some of this stuff and rely on the amazing ppl here to help me out but I have been through some trial and error too in my few years of this Herp stuff lol.. so I hope this helped, if not I’m sure someone more experienced than I can assist… good luck and I hope she gets back to a heathy growing animal soon!
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