I only have ever had one BP (a male, which I've had for 15 years now). His first "hunger strike" (scare quotes, since that can be a normal behavior and so is simply a seasonal/natural pause in feeding, not a response to something terrible as that phrase can imply), was, if I recall correctly, more than six months. In recent years he tends not to take more than a couple months off.
I feed him small FT rats (very rarely mediums, and sometimes a couple adult mice instead), and only when he gets in feeding mode. BPs are (mine is, anyway) really easy to tell when they're hungry, so that's nicer than species that aren't so communicative.
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