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Hi my snake is 4 months and bit old up-till 27 sept she was feeding every 4 days, she cut back when she shed and ate the day she shed and twice after that on her regular feed day. This was great I had a python with an appetite ! She now has refused food for over 2 weeks, she doesn't seem bothered and is active but just wants to get out of her cage and explore (supervised) at night ( I don't sleep much ). She has only lost 3grams in the 2 weeks, her last recorded weight was 140grams 3weeks ago. Question : - When should I try her with food and how often? At what kind of weight loss do I start getting stressed? She eats F/T and always has, although I have never had her strike at the food she just grabs it and then constricts it and down it goes.

I am slightly stressed about this as my first snake died from not eating ( i know that that wasn't my fault and that she was I'll before i got her ). Any and all suggestions appreciated, even if its to tell me to take chill pill.

Thanks
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0.1 Royal python
0.2 Dogs
2.0 guineapigs
1.1 kids
0.1 wife

I wouldn't worry about it. Feeding her every 4 days probably put a good bit of weight on her, and two weeks of not eating is nothing to a ball python. My adult female will eat like a pig for a while and then refuse everything for a while and then eat again like she's starving to death. My baby is also starting to slow down eating, so it could be the change in seasons.

Try offering yours food once a week, whatever it's been eating up til now, and don't stress until it starts to look noticeably skinnier. Give it a month and then try some of the tricks you'll see all over the forum - leaving the prey half in the hidey overnight, a live one instead of frozen, leaving the snake and the food in a paper bag in the enclosure overnight...

But at the moment you don't have much to worry about.

~jenny
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1.1.1 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)

but what I really want is more ball pythons!