Doesn't the fasting in ball pythons drive you insane!

Man I can't wait for this to end. All of my snakes about 50 are fasting. Some have been fasting since early Sept 2003. They all had fantastic weights but now are really looking skinny and deflated.

Colors look drab etc etc.. I had some really nice pumped up 2002 girls around the 800-1000 gram marker, nice and fat and chunky, and now? There skinny and deflated.

I haven't cleaned a snake poop in months, mice are dying from OLD age, and I had to seperate all the male rats from the females because NONE of the rats are being used.

I swear I think sometimes they may never come back on feed.

I wonder why they do this, I wish there was a way to know, why a healthy happy fat snake, decides that one day it is going to stop eating for up to 6+ months!

I still think it so important to feed baby BP's almost as much as they will take, because the day will come when the fast will start. And even if there fat and overweight as yearlings, they will lose a lot of weight during the fast.

One question not about BP's. Do BLOOD PYTHONS FAST? for any long amount of time?

Getting hard to get my butt down in the basement constantly cleaning rats/mice when it seems the entire snake collection is at a total stand still.

I used to offer food once a week, I'm now up to once every 3-weeks, and still I have no one eating. You can tell RIGHT away that there not going to eat when you plop the mouse in the cage.

You can just tell by the way the snake acts and moves. And when there off feed, they pay 0 attention to the mouse, it's as if the mouse is not even in the cage. Something in there brain says FEED MODE OFF, there is no in between.

Tonight I will be offering food, It's been 3 1/2 weeks since I have.

Should I switch to a once a month routine as to not stress the snakes? I switched to a once a week water/changing schedule, used to be once every 4-days.

Thanks for the moral support.. My hat off to all you big breeders with all those high end ball pythons. Must really stink when your pied or super-pastel decides that it's going to stop eating FOR MONTHS on end. My HET albinos and normals are OFF feed and I'm having a hard time dealing with it.

I'd better forget the real expsensive morphs! If I owned some, they went off feed, I might have a nervous breakdown! LOL LOL

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