Must vent... Today is the single best day of my life since I've been in the hobby...

[Crazy4Herps]

Cu's story, in short: When I got Cu, almost two years ago, she was on live small rats. She only ate around half of the times I offered, and when she did, she took a very long time to strike and a very long time to eat it. After her four-month winter fast, she took a live mouse, and since has refused rats. As I continued to feed her two live mice a week, her feeding response became more and more aggressive. I have probably wasted well over fifty frozen rodents during the time she's been with me, to no avail.



A few hours ago, I went to the freezer to thaw a mouse for Sangre, my blood. (Killer feeding response, btw. He's the best!) I had the strangest urge to thaw one for Cu. So I did.

So, after it had been thawed and warmed on the heat pad, I took the f/t mouse with the tongs and made noises around her tub. Sure enough, her head popped out of her hide. Being the klutz I am, I dropped the mouse. And Cu started coming out of the tub after me. She's always been so skittish, I never dreamed I'd ever have any trouble with a too-aggressive feeding response! (I'm not complaining, though! I'm fine with a couple good tags, and I'm fed up with her being fussy.) So, I nudged her head away with the tongs. Before she started going after the tongs, I managed to pick up the mouse.

Then...

BANG!!

...making today is the best day of my herping life!!!! The only thing that kept me from jumping and screaming with delight was the fact that she might not finish eating it, which would suck.


So.

I am never going to buy a live rodent ever again!!!

Okay, maybe not. But for the time being, both of my snakes are eating f/t!!!!!





Thanks for looking. I HAD to share, I am sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!



Oh. And in celebration, here are a few pics of the girl I love so much.

[joshn6805]

Congrats on switching her over . They can be difficult at times but its rewarding when everything goes
Your way. Congrats and may many more good days come. She's a beauty.

[gmcclurelssu]

x2 on the congrats! i just got Lennie to switch over reecently and it was great, he just didn't give me the feeding response, ate it in the middle of the night. oh well, whatever works!

[jsmorphs2]

That's awesome! I love when they switch over! Hopefully she will be a great eater for you from now on.

[jamesa2580]

Awesome - congrats! I have 7 snakes now in the collection and I think only 3 will take f/t. All the rest are live. The nice thing about having 7 is that I try to offer the f/t to the ones who normally eat live. If they take it, I'm a winner. If not, I give it to one of the girls who will eat anything.

Just because the live was costing so much and such a pain to go out for weekly, I just started breeding my own ASF's. If the colony works, I'm in business and then it's all good. I have my choice. For now, though, I still try to get them on f/t. I know what's going to happen - Murphy's law - I'll get all except one on f/t. Oh well. I'm happy for you. Good work.

[Crazy4Herps]

Thanks everybody! No more live rodents here; my future plans consist of a BRB who is already on f/t and a black blood, which shouldn't be difficult to convert.

[Meghan]

Congrats for sure. I have only tried feeding my bp f/t twice and both times she wouldn't even "look" at it. She literally just slithered over it as if it weren't there (I dropped it out of frustration). Part of me wants to convert, but a bigger part of me doesn't. I know it's "best" but, I don't know... Still mulling it over.