Again, I really appreciate the help, you guys -- and I definitely appreciate you reading through everything I wrote in my original post. I tried an intra-enclosure feeding last night but no success as of yet. She's still doing her dumb striking, behaving like she just wants the prey to go away. I attempted 4 intra-enclosure feedings for the duration of an hour, spaced 15m apart. I then moved her to the tub to try that once more and was greeted with the same behavior. There are a couple of 1 to 2 min videos below that were taken during this stage:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T7e...u0fk2hGgd/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PY8...vBlbAHroH/view
(For the first one above, sorry but you'll probably want to just skip 30s in.)
Can anyone further advise on what I should be doing? On the final feeding attempt in the tub, I just left the hopper in there to see if she would feed, but she didn't. I've never had such a difficult time with feeding as this and I've had 2 Royal Pythons and 1 Jungle Carpet before for a number of years. I still feel confident that she'll eat live but I *really* don't want to go back to that. Obviously, it's cruel for the prey (though I know this happens regularly in the wild) but it's also very easy for the prey to bite the snake, as I'm sure you all agree..
Andy27012 -- can you tell me what kind of heating pad you use and where you get your chick down? Does everyone else agree that this is something to try? I've never had to go this route but then again I've never had a snake that's been so resistant to frozen/thawed feeding.
MDT -- you're positive she won't starve herself, correct? As in, if i just keep trying f/t then she'll eventually become hungry enough to eat? I desperately hope so...
Does anyone else have any input and/or suggestions? Thank you all in advance for your help...
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