I have a 455g male ball python who stopped eating frozen thawed rats completely. I tried feeding him prekilled rats for a while but he still wasn't interested. I started feeding him live and he took to them pretty well. He's eating 40-50g rats and I'm afraid to feed him any bigger because he's a VERY shy eater. He will wait for the rat to be one inch a way from him face, and if it turns to face him or bumps his nose, he freaks out and hides. A lot of times I have to hold the rat still by the tail with tongs in front of him so he'll take it. When I fed him yesterday he started at the rat for 10 minutes and then started moving up to it and then he sniffed it and was touching it with his nose but he wouldn't grab it. Does anyone know how I can get him to be more of an aggressive feeder? It's hard right now because I get really bad anxiety when I feed him a 50g rat and it comes up to his face and he doesn't strike it. Any ideas would be great. He eats every 5-7 days by the way.