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    Couple things I would check.

    -What are you temps like, cool, warm, and hot spot? Either too hot or too cold could cause them to not want to eat or digest too slow in the case of cold.
    -What kind of cover does she have to hide? Oftentimes I will see new owners put a baby BP in a huge enclosure with a couple hides and call it good and this rarely works. If it's a large space, you need to fill most of it up with fake plants, hides, sterilized branches, etc
    -Is the prey item small enough? Even if it's appropriately sized, snakes who have been fasting or are just scaredy cats do better if you go a size or two down and feed more frequent. I have a breeding size male and sub adult female that refuse to take small rats, and have to be fed weaned. This is just how some are.

    Whatever the case, if she is eating SOME of the time, I would stop trying to switch up the type of prey. If she ate a f/t rat at any point with you, I'd stick with that.

    Hope that helps!
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