My first suggestion would be to double check your husbandry. What are you taking your temperature reading with? Are you taking them at snake level? And how are you heating your cage? Do you have belly heat? Try bringing the hot spot up to about 90* with your ambient temperature to 85ish. Check your temps with a temp gun and use a good digital thermometer/hygrometer for accurate readings. Make sure that you cage is not in a high traffic area (what type of caging do you have?) Make sure you have a nice tight fitting dark hide for her on the hot side and in the cool end as well. Make sure you are feeding at night. If you can, double check with previous owner as to her eating/feeding habits and preferences.



With that being said - some snakes will only eat every month or so - theres not a lot you can do about it - except for be thankful you aren't spending as much as the guy next door that has to spend 4 times as much to feed his.



As for the bite - don't worry about it too much - it could be stress, mistaken identity, you startled her - bites happen.



If she continues to act "funny" you might want to try finding a herp vet to have her a good going over,fecal, etc. to be on the safe side.



Good luck!
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Tosha

JET Pythons



(CJBianco explaining the origins of the BP market.)

"In the beginning Bob created the Ball Python market. And the market was without morph, and wild traits were upon the industry. And Bob said, Let there be morph, and there was morph. And Bob saw the morph, that it was good; and Bob divided the morph from the wild trait. And Bob called the morph Albino, and the wild trait Normal. And the Albino and the Heterozygous Albino were the first investment.

-- Christopher 1:1-1:5"

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