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Can anyone tell me what their experience is on this subject?
I have a pair of labyrinths adult. Both the male and the female always eat perfect. Untill yesterday... They both refused to eat for the first time since i got them(i bought them about 10 months ago and their about 8 years old.)

I wouldn't worry if I were you. Sometimes my animals will refuse feed because they are about to start a shed cycle. I think there is about a day or two that the snakes have started their cycle but it is very difficult to detect visually because they are not cloudy yet. Usually, the belly is the first place to see them getting cloudy. I always check there if I can tell by a normal inspection.

Usually too, sexually mature animals, will stop eating in the winter. My males always shut down first, usually in November. (they know when it's time to concentrate on other things) Then, after some breeding activity, some of my females will shut down. Some of my females will continue to feed through the winter though, until ovulation. I will continue to offer food the ones that will eat, making sure that temps stay suitable for digestion.

It's too early to say that they have both shut down for the winter but if they have BOTH shut down now, you might want to make sure that you do not have two males.

Let us know how it goes.

Tom

I've have seen them slow down eating regardless of how the enclosure temps. were. They did continue to eat just not as much. All my herps do. I'm in Philly PA. so I assume barometric pressure, though we as humans ignore it, affects them somehow.

I've been told that it's not the temp that get's them breeding but the color of the sunlight that changes in winter/summer time...
When do you put the pair together ussually to breed them?