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i have 2 ball pythons and yes in the same tank 4x2x2 which they have been in all there lives together and are hardly apart and have been feeding alright apart from the last few months and is getting really fat and big and it is out growing the other one who is really hard sometimes to get to eat,he eat last week but the mouse burst but he still eat it and i am not sure wheather this put him off but tonight he wont even eat at all and the other is fine again in fact i have never seen her soo hungry as i say i strongly disagree that keeping them in the same tank is anything to do with the problem as they have been brought up in it
they are both about 6 months old i am just scared that the good one will get that big she may attack the other one please help or teach me

Welcome to the world of ball pythons. It sounds to me that your non-eater might be a male and this time of year they have other things on their minds.

In addition, ball pythons are that way. They eat and eat and then one day they stop. Who knows why, but they just do. Then all of a sudden WHAM! They are back on. The best thing you can do is relax and be patient. I've had a few BP's stop eating for 6 months to a year without any ill effects. They do know better than you and just because you ring the dinner bell,doesn't mean that they will respond.

Winter is coming. They can feel it too and that can make the difference.

Have fun!

MJ

To add on to what Mark said, if the non-eater is a male, and the eater is a female, he may be stressed by living with another ball. Balls are not social snakes, in the 'wild' they would not live together in close quarters. I woudl consider seperating them, regardless of what you think might be right. Buy a book on the husbandry of ball pythons.