Ok, my ball python hasn't been eating for about a month and a half now so i decided to try live. She was eating frozen jumbo mice(and started refusing them) and is now big enough to eat small rats. So i bough a live small rat (about the size of a jumbo mouse) for her and she wouldn't eat it, in fact she was running away from it because it was crawling on her. Is she afraid of the small rat or is she just not hungry? Is there a better way to transition from frozen to live like mabye feeding her a smaller live rodent? She has never ate rats before. I know ball pythons go off feed in the winter and i have come to terms with that but i want to make sure that is the reason she is not eating and its not because of a mistake im making. I would like to begin feeding her live, she is 4, but i don't want to scare her. Im pretty sure I have all her husbandry down so im pretty confident its not that.


If I could get some help I would really appreciate it!


P.S. I have an 100w infrared light that i usualy keep on only in the day, should i keep this on 24/7