We have had a baby Pastel BP (10 months) for a few months now. Everything had been going great, and he had been feeding with no problem on FT adult mice, and then about a month ago, he stopped accepting food.

We would thaw the mouse as normal, place it on top of the screen to scent, and as usual, within a minute or two, he would come flying out of hide, seeming very excited. But when I presented the mouse, he would not take it. We have attempted 5 times in the last month to no success. A couple times he would make half-hearted strikes, but would either miss entirely or not follow through, after a few minutes he would go back in his hide.

His behavior other then feeding time seems fine. He stays in his hide all day, starts to peek out around 5 or 6, and then comes out once it gets dark. He isn't shedding. We see him drinking, and he is calm(ish) when we take him out.

We have him in a 10G Foil Treated aquarium with the sides and back covered. Temps are 92/82 with humidity in the low 50s. He is in our living room, with higher traffic, but it didn't seem to bother him the first few months.

We have thought about trying live, but we are nervous that we wouldn't be able to get him back on FT, and feeding live his whole life is just not reasonable for us. He is pretty small for his age I think. Last time I weighed him he was 300g. We had started feeding him a large mouse every 5 days for a while. (There was no local source of anything smaller then a small rat.)

Any thoughts? We are a little worried, and any insight would be very helpful.

Finally, a few pictures of Leonard:







Thank you very much,
Brandon