I'm just going on a long shot here. I'm a complete amature I haven't bred anything yet, but I've been reading all over the internet just about everyday for a year now. Sounds to me like your males didn't loose interest. I think your female has lost interest in your males because she may be gravid. I watched a really good video on snake bytes that went into great detail about what happens with the females as they go through certain stages of breeding. You can check it out on youtube I believe it was only last week or the week before last's video. But anyway one of the points that I remember is that when the female develops because gravid she looses interest in breeding, but can still become fertile because on sperm retention. I would say the shed could possibly be a pre-lay shed??? This is all with out knowing if you palpated any follicles or not, but that would explain a lack of lock up and the shed and I believe you mentioned that she's was pounding food at one point, but I never heard of shedding so much during breeding and you didn't mention anything about increase in size/weight, unless you just assumed it was from the increased food intake. I'll be the first to tell you my advice is worth nothing. I'm here for nothing more than to learn, but maybe I could make you think about something you may have over looked.

Mike

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