Does your BP take f/t?

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. :(

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 :D

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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. :)

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!

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Originally Posted by Deborah

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

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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.)

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Originally Posted by Crazy4Herps

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.)

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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.

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

mine wouldent eat live at all and went 3 weeks before i "ASSISTED" them (they are hatchlings BTW) so now they eat F/T mice all the time

You might find that, after your girl is up to weight and has been bred, she'll switch on her own.

I have a 10+yr old female that I adopted a couple years ago. She had always been fed live and nothing I tried would convince her to eat F/T. I would hold out on her, waiting for her to take F/T for many weeks before I'd offer her a live rat. I finally gave up trying after a year or so.

Last year, she bred with my male pastel and THEN started taking F/T. I have no idea why, however once she switched she's one of my best eaters.

Good luck with whatever you end up doing!

I couldn't vote, since two of my BPs take FT (and PK, and whatever looks and smells like a rodent!), and the other two only accept PK. ALL my corns, though, are finally on FT! :banana: AND everyone who is on FT is on rats!

And I'll be trying to convert those two BPs to FT ASAP. :) But, since one is that rescued pastel male who was off food all winter and recently got back on, and the other is my brand new albino male who I forgot to inquire about feeding habits on from his previous owners, I think it can wait a while.

i bought mine from a guy who had fed live for 2 and a half years so switching it to F/T is a challenge