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So I just ran into some feeding probelms with my group of balls. I had them on F/T Rats then all of a sudden bam. They stopped. Nothing has changed with caging. I live in FL and my Herp room actually reaches about 88 at the hottest part of the day during the summer and drops to low 80's at night humidity is always around 60. I tried bumping up the heat on thier rack to over 90 that didnt work. now i have lowered it hoping to get some response. Keep in mind out of the 2.2 Balls that i have (all in one rack (41qt)) One of my females is an eating machine and would just keep eating if i let her. She is kept the same as the others......i am now going on 3 months without food and starting to get worried. My thoughts are since reading on this forum that A.S.F. Might help out my problem. Would this work? IDEAS?

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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"

That might help with the ASF's but remember that we are just out of the season where many of the Ball's stop eating for the winter months because of the changes in weather and breeding issues and all that kind of stuff. I have lots of Ball's both big and small that whether they are breeding size or not just seem to stop eating during the winter and many are now just starting back. Some have been eating all winter, some have been off feed for 3 to 6 months, some have just recently started back to eating and I have a few that still are not back to eating yet..lol. Good luck and welcome to the world of the finicky eaters,Ball Pythons.
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JEM from sunny AZ.

2.25 Normals
5.9 Pastels
3.6 Normal Spiders
1.1 Spiders 100% het Ghost(thanks Mark Petros)
0.2 Spiders 66% het Ghost
1.3 Orange/Butterscotch Ghosts(BallPython777 Mark Petros)
0.6 100% het Orange Ghost
0.3 66% het Orange Ghost
0.1 Pastel Ghost
1.0 Citrus Ghost
0.1 Super Pastel 100% het Ghost
2.0 Albinos
1.0 Caramel Albino
0.4 100% het for Albino
0.3 66% het for Albino
0.1 50% het for Albino
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1.2 100% het for Clowns
1.2 Cinnamons
1.2 100% het for Pied
0.3 66% het for Pied
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1.1 Beautiful Black Pastels(thanks Gulf Coast Reptiles)
1.1 BumbleBees(thanks for the AWESOME Bees Marc Bailey)
1.0 Super Pastel
0.1 Chocolates(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.1 Lessers
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1.2 High White Calico's(Thanks Brent from BRB)
1.1 SpotNoses(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.1 Enchi's
1.0 Pinstripe
0.1 Lemon Blast
1.0 Vanilla Ghost(Thanks again GCR for all the great snakes)
0.0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty

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Last but most Important 2.2 Children

i was once thinking to feed asf but im glad i didnt! my collection of only 4 adults and 4 hatchlings were mostly off feed my pastel didnt eat for 5-6 months now he is a eating machine! i fed him 5-6 small rats last week he just keeps pounding them! he is getting huge im not over feeding that bad but they were small rats. just have patience they will eat again when they want! good luck and nice albino looks like mine!

Thank got them from Niel Golli....THey are great took me about 3 month to get them on F/T but they were puonding them not prob...they up to small to med ratsand then bam they just stopped in feb.....Not sure if the whole season change had something to do with it....but they ate through the winter pretty much (not that we have a winter here in central FL) now it is like in the 90's outside and upper 80's in my room.....then my older male hasnt eaten either.....guess I will wait and see they just are starting to look skinny to me....I need to get a scale.

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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"