BP wont eat frozen thawed

Can anyone help me my baby BP wont eat unless its live, trying to save money I have a freezer full of frozen and I am running out of options can anyone give me ideas

Are you feeding rats or mice?

I am feeding it mice

when you thaw the mouse out warm it up with a blow dryer or with body heat using your hands that is how i had to switch mine to f/t.

It is very important that the f/t prey be thawed and then warmed up so that your snake will take it. I thaw my small rats in a baggie in some hot water. I do this until the rat is at the appropriate temperature and then I zap the head with a hair dryer. I then present it to the snake and bam, he strikes and coils.

you can go to a local pet store, ask for wood shavings from a gerbil cage. Lets your mouse sit in a bag of these after thawing for awhile, the scent of the gerbil(ball pythons eat gerbils in their native environments) may be enough to trigger a feeding response. Make sure you warm its head with a heat lamp or a blow dryer afterward. you can try also putting him in a smaller, darker enclosure with the mouse to give him more security. i'd say put the gerbils-scented substrate into this container as well, but be weary as they could be pine or cedar shavings, and those are toxic!

i will try to heat it up and i will see if that works

Ive been told to heat it up alot little more then it would be naturally alive. put it in an old mouse box that had live in it shake it around, the smell of the mouse will make him freak out, and if that sitll doesnt work ive ben told by a gentleman to stick it with a wooden bamboo squewer and shake it in his face and make it " aviod" his face he'll smell see hear and feel the mouse and go for it.

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Originally Posted by python1024

It is very important that the f/t prey be thawed and then warmed up so that your snake will take it. I thaw my small rats in a baggie in some hot water. I do this until the rat is at the appropriate temperature and then I zap the head with a hair dryer. I then present it to the snake and bam, he strikes and coils.

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Thanks the hair dryer works

The hair drier is what I do.. wife gets mad.. lol.. a little wiggle from the tail side with a warm head and WHAM....

Pre-scenting with the hair dryer usually works. Use the hair dryer on high heat but low speed (if you can choose) and hold the mouse you're warming really close to an open cage/tub/whatever you keep the snake in so that the air is blowing into the snake enclosure. This usually gets them in feeding mode right away, and they should come out already in an S coil, so by the time they actually get the prey they haven't noticed it's not alive.

Heh,

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Originally Posted by Subdriven

The hair drier is what I do.. wife gets mad.. lol.. a little wiggle from the tail side with a warm head and WHAM....

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I think it would be an act of christian charity to buy your wife a new hairdrier. :rofl: :rofl:


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Originally Posted by Subdriven

The hair drier is what I do.. wife gets mad.. lol.. a little wiggle from the tail side with a warm head and WHAM....

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heh i use my hair dryer on dead rats more than i use it on my hair XD