My Stimsons Python won't eat

[Colin41]

I have had a Stimson's Python for 3 years now. Initially I bought it as a female, and it was only after 2 years that it was actually confirmed by the Vet as a male.
It has always fed well. I used to feed him every Wednesday until the last year when he has been a little less wanting to eat, so now I feed him each 3 weeks. The last time he took food was a small rat on 17th November 2024. He is nice and plump looking. Today I took him out of his enclosure and found in his hide, three what looked like eggs (see attached photo). First my python has had no contact with any other snakes ever. Can these actually be eggs? Obviously they are not fertile? Also could this be the reason he is not eating. The only thing different I have done of late is to change the ground cover from aspen chips to a cover with larger, rougher chips 'Critter Comfort'. Can this be effecting him.

 

[Sdaji]

Haha, purchased as a female, the vet "confirms" it's a male, and it lays eggs.

Nicely tells the story of keepers or vets having a better idea of what they're doing, and it's classic vet behaviour to say someone else was wrong and give you wrong information or diagnoses.

Yes, absolutely, they're eggs. Your snake is female.

Fertile? Probably not, the one on the left certainly isn't. You can candle them (the light on your phone does a decent job) to check for fertility, or if you don't know how to do this you can just stick them in an incubator anyway and see what happens. They don't look good, but hey, no harm in playing around.

If your snake has genuinely not been in contact with any other snake since she was a hatchling, the eggs are almost certainly non viable, but there's a small chance they might hatch due to parthenogenesis - it's rare but it does happen and is extremely cool.