Does your BP take f/t?

[Crazy4Herps]

For those of you with more than one, take the average.

Feel free to elaborate.

After a year of trying, I have given up on getting my girl on f/t.

[Krista]

I think I got lucky..
When I got Anubis, she'd only ever eaten live.
I feed her f/t now and she just has the best feeding response I've ever seen. I barely have it dangling over her for 10 seconds and she pounding it back

When I still had my boa, she was another story. She would only eat live rats. I tried offering her f/t many times, and she would just ignore it.

[eMonk]

mine does but she will just go up to it and swallow. doesn't strike it with quickness or coil.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Here is what happen with mine I feed live (more convenient for me) however during the winter as my BP go off feed due to breeding I end up with too many rats, therefore I chose to euthanize and freeze them.

Once my BP resume feeding I offer F/T to half of my BP and they take it without problem, once I run out of F/T I feed them live again (I do that every year)

Note: all the BP eating mice eat F/T

After a year of trying, I have given up on getting my girl on f/t.

I am curious when you offer F/T and it fails do you offer live instead?

[JLC]

Both of mine started out with live....I've since switched to frozen and they both made the transition with no extra effort on my part at all...not even a skipped meal.

[rabernet]

I couldn't vote. I've never tried to convert any of mine to f/t. I've fed live for the past 5 years with no problems.

[SugarFox03]

All of my ball pythons are on f/t, except one picky pastel girl who USED to eat f/t, but changed her mind a couple months ago and I've yet to been able to convince her to switch back. If I wasn't trying to get her up to breeding weight for next season, I'd probably try a little harder. I guess it's not that big of a deal - I have to go to the store to get other feeder bugs during the week, so I just pick up a small/medium rat while I'm there. I just got in three new babies on Wed and two of the three ate f/t for me yesterday. The one I accidently dropped the rat fuzzy on her head, so I'm sure that scared her and she didn't want to eat! I'm going to try again in a couple days. She has eaten f/t before, so I'm sure it won't be an issue.

All of my other snakes also eat f/t: a yearling albino redtail, 3 corn snakes, and a brazilian rainbow boa. They all will eat anything I throw in their enclosure!

[Crazy4Herps]

I am curious when you offer F/T and it fails do you offer live instead?

Usually I continue to offer f/t every four days for a few weeks, but then I give in and feed live. (Want to get her up to breeding weight for next season.)

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Usually I continue to offer f/t every four days for a few weeks, but then I give in and feed live. (Want to get her up to breeding weight for next season.)

I would suggest you to offer less often, every 7 days (offering too soon after refusal often leads to more refusals) and if you really want to convert her you will need to use tough love especially if she has a good body weight, however if your priority is to get up to size for next season (which you can never predict whether or not a female will be) than you might have to stick with live.

[Crazy4Herps]

Thanks for the suggestion! I will try that after the breeding season.