never had such a picky eating ball python. lol

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I'd advise against thawing the mouse out in water,I been told by quiet a few friends that depletes the nutrients..so what I do is,thaw it out at room temperature and then place the heat lamp over it for 5-10 mins tell it's fully thAwed and warm,I then open the package/ziplock bag it's in and place it on top the screen so Kocur can smell it,once he smells it,tongue is going and he is out and ready to feed..

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You do realize this thread is months old? lol

Definitely keep him on live until he has a healthy body condition again. If he's eating live, that's better than nothing and it sounds like he really needs to eat.

Just keep offering in his enclosure. I've had hundreds of in enclosure live feedings and never had an issue. Just have to be aware, responsible, and vigilant.

You can also try to offer a live feeder along with frozen at the same time. That way he can smell the live mouse. If he takes the live first, wait with the frozen. He might take it too since he's still in feeding mode. I usually concert mousers to ratters this way, but have heard of people doing it with live to f/t too.

EDIT:darn! Didn't see that this was old!

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When you say BRAIN the FT,so you mean to smash its head or puncture it's head to make it bleed or something along those lines.?

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When you say BRAIN the FT,so you mean to smash its head or puncture it's head to make it bleed or something along those lines.?

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Smash the head to expose the brains and yum stuff. Something about it makes some snakes go crazy for it.

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Definitely keep him on live until he has a healthy body condition again. If he's eating live, that's better than nothing and it sounds like he really needs to eat.

Just keep offering in his enclosure. I've had hundreds of in enclosure live feedings and never had an issue. Just have to be aware, responsible, and vigilant.

You can also try to offer a live feeder along with frozen at the same time. That way he can smell the live mouse. If he takes the live first, wait with the frozen. He might take it too since he's still in feeding mode. I usually concert mousers to ratters this way, but have heard of people doing it with live to f/t too.

EDIT:darn! Didn't see that this was old!

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Smash the head to expose the brains and yum stuff. Something about it makes some snakes go crazy for it.

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Yup,that's what I figured...good to know...thnx

I didn't realize it Was old either. Don't even know how I came across it...

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Feed in his enclosure, he's comfortable there and there's no chance of him mistaking your hand for food unless you've handled feeders with your hands which I never do. About feeding if hes feeding well on live give him live. Snakes are built for striking and killing live prey! I keep tub open tongs in hand ready to intervene until rat is for sure dead. Things do happen but closely supervised I feel feeding live to healthy good feeding snakes is ok.

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Ditto

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Yup,that's what I figured...good to know...thnx

I didn't realize it Was old either. Don't even know how I came across it...

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There is nothing wrong with "necro-posting". Better than spamming the same subject in multiple threads as far as im concerned...