Wooing BP off of live mice for frozen???

[mountaindew117]

Hello everyone i have come here today in seeking the advice from all of you. I was just wondering if there was a way to woo my ball python off of live mice and subbing out with frozen mice. The reason being is the closest pet store to me is about 45 minutes away and it is quite a drive to and from to get her 1 mouse a week. I live in an apartment and i can't breed live mice in my apartment so that is out of the question. I am coming to you guys in desperate need of trying to woo my BP off of live mice. Shes about a year old and about maybe 2 feet long or more.

[Mr Oni]

hey man, have you tried f/t or have you tried rats yet?

I was able to get one of mine off live with pre-killed
patience and patience.

can you give some info on what you have tried and such.

[LLLReptile]

Have you started trying yet? Some snakes are much easier to switch than others, maybe yours will take to frozen/thawed without a hitch. Usually skipping a meal or two and ensuring that the thawed mouse is nice and toasty will make it pretty painless to switch them over.

-Jen

[Shifty11]

if you haven't just try, our second BP switched without a hitch after coming from straight live, our first BP went from Frozen to live to frozen.

Our first one would eat anything we put in front of her [mice, rats, asf, live, frozen. doesnt matter to her]

We switched our second the first feed we got him without an issue.

Shifty

[GregsMoko]

Buy frozen ,wait seven days, warm it up, use long tongs, move approx 3-4" slowly in in front or to the side of the snakes head, slowly, when your snake turns to the rat a little, slow up your movement, watch for the snake to smell the air(rat) and move just a little until the snake strikes. After your snake constricts be sure to gently tug the rat as if it were alive with a little faster, progressing to slower movements , then to last breath kinda deal. After a couple of feedings, your good to go. Should use temp gun to check temp on thawed food. I personally think its just another positive use of a temp gun. Better safe than sorry

[CptJack]

I'm a newbie and my snake took about four weeks to get from eating live to frozen/thawed.

I kind of suspect the time was what did it, but it was also the first time I accidentally over warmed the rat, so it was basically boiled. Snake struck and constricted, and the rat exploded.

Yum. Snake enjoyed its meal, though I really have to say the smell of parboiled rat intestines is not particularly appealing.