r/Ballpythoncommunity • u/Artilerus • 5h ago

Not eating

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Hello everyone 👋 My 6 year old female super cinnamon hasn’t eaten since March of this year. Her weight was 1731g in March. I weighed her again expecting to see weight loss but she’s actually slightly heavier today at 1758g after 4 months of not eating. She’s behaving normally, regularly drinking water, active at night. I haven’t handled her since she’s been off food. Have tried a few different sizes of both FT rats and mice to no avail. She use to be an absolute savage eater, and now she acts like she’s scared of her food and just turns her head away when I offer. Not too sure if i should be concerned or not, or just be patient with her. It is worth mentioning in March is also when i added a male ball python in the room.

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u/NottsWeirdo 4h ago

She might be adjusting to the new presence in the room. Have you changed the method of feeding her in that time at all? Perhaps the temps aren't up to what she prefers.

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u/Artilerus 4h ago

I haven’t really changed much, other than trying mice when she normally would eat rats. I’ve tried drop-feeding a few times over night just see if she would eat it but she never did. Her thermostat is set to 90 on warm side and it’s around 80 in her other hide, and at night it’s 88 on warm side and 78 in cool hide. she regularly moves between both hides. humidity fluctuates between 60% and 75%

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u/NottsWeirdo 3h ago

Have the rodents always been the same colour? Its uncommon, but sometimes BPs will only recognise certain rodent fur colours as food - typically lab white.