I have two thoughts/comments...

First, the body temperature of rats and mice is 102 degrees so you need your warmer system to heat them to 104-105 so that their heat signature is at least 102 when you introduce them.

Second, for the females that stop eating around 1000 g, if they were close when the cooling period hit, you may want to add a male and see if they breed. I just got a clutch yesterday from a female that was at 1000 g last August and didn't eat until October. I had written her off for the year when I started the breeding process with other snakes. Then a friend suggested I should just breed her and she will start to eat if she wants eggs. To make a shorts story long, she bred and then started eating anything I tossed in the tub, gained 300 g over the next 6 weeks and just gave me a nice clutch of 4 eggs with nice veins in them.

Good luck.

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