White lip python not eating.

[That Guy]

Hello all. I've been dealing with this issue since I first got these snakes in early August. They are a juvenile pair of wild-caught Northern white-lipped pythons . I was asking questions on a Facebook page that is no longer there so now I'm here. I started them out in shallow but large totes with paper towels, hide, and water dish. For the first two months neither of them ate. I had the temp mid eighties and the hotspot at about a hundred. Was suggested I lower the temp to 80 and have the hot spot at 90 and also put a substrate in there. I also have kept the humidity up this whole time as I was under the impression that they need a higher humidity. I also have them now in a taller tote what's a piece of PVC to climb. It's been about 2 weeks and they still have not eaten. I even tried live mice and live mice with chicken broth on them thinking maybe the smell of bird would help. The best I got was the female constricted and then released the mouse. Neither have eaten still. I've only been trying once a week to feed them. Other than that I try to say hands off. Any other suggestions would be helpful as I don't know where to go from here. There's a guy in my local pet store who said he could force feed for me but I would prefer not to have to do that.