I'm worried about my almost six year old BP who has been eating sporadically for close to a year now. He'll accept 2-3 meals, then refuse around 3-4 meals and has visibly lost weight. I would say in the past 12 months, he's eaten around 7-10 times.
He has been through some stressful changes in the past 1-2 years, with me moving and leaving him with my family, where there was also a lot of change happening with different people living there at different times and he had different people taking care of him and coming and going.
I moved him to my new home in January this year and was able to get him to eat 3 times between Feb - March, but he has now refused 4 meals in a row and I'm started to get worried about his body condition because I can see he's lost a pretty significant amount of weight. He may have been a bit overweight when he first stopped eating regularly, but now I'm worried about him getting any skinnier.
I am going to be trying all the recommendations from the Psychology of Problem Feeders thread on this forum, but wanted to get some input on his body condition to know if I should try something more drastic sooner. If anyone has recommendations on how to get ball pythons to eat, please share them as well! I'm also wondering how often I should be attempting to offer him food - the current intervals are ~14-18 days.
Photos of my BP are below:
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