Ruby's first Rat

[MissKittyHP]

Ruby got her first small rat yesterday and still has an excellent feed response to FT.



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[Aercadia]

Congrats! :) My worm switched over recently too, he was taking f/t mice and we tried him out on a fresh-killed rat pup, he took it without a hint of complaint. I think he's going to be a good feeder. Your girl looks to be on the same boat!

[MissKittyHP]

Thank you! She eats FT very well! Doesn't even hesitate as you can see. I don't like when people say don't even try feeding them FT because BP are picky. When we fed her FT for the first time she was confused but then got it and now she eats them perfectly. It's rewarding to have your animals maintain excellent feed response. How old is you BP?


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[Reinz]

Well done, congrats!

[Aercadia]

Thank you! She eats FT very well! Doesn't even hesitate as you can see. I don't like when people say don't even try feeding them FT because BP are picky. When we fed her FT for the first time she was confused but then got it and now she eats them perfectly. It's rewarding to have your animals maintain excellent feed response. How old is you BP?

We've got a picky one right now that is driving me nuts (f/t rat? no thanks. fresh killed rat? go away. live rat? haha no. fresh killed mouse? yawn. OMG EAT YOU INSANE CREATURE) but my little worm (Vince) is about 150 g right now, we didn't get a DOB but I figure he must be a Dec 2014/Jan 2015 baby. His feeding response is SO GOOD, I'm so proud. He just shed this week, and did a poo ALL over the side of his hide, but he took a meal last week even with milky eyes. Good snek is good. I love to see that "is that food? food? GIMME" response :)

[MissKittyHP]

Yeah that's very picky, lol. Has he or she eaten at all? It sucks that you are having to deal with a super picky BP. If mine were that picky I don't know wtf I would do. What's your wormy eating? I want to get another BP at a young age again. That's really good it's feeding response is good. My boas are garbage disposals and with the good feeding response I have with all of them I get scared I will get a BP that has the worst feeding response. Ruby didn't eat on her recent shed and even that worried me. How hot do you get your FT for your BP? Maybe it's going through a phase of not eating.


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[Aercadia]

The picky girl in question has not eaten for us at all. Before we bought her, we asked if we could get her feed records, but the seller said they don't keep feed records - they put a sticker on the tub if the snake refuses, and they won't sell a snake that has refused food twice, and she had no stickers... so she was eating before we got her. :\ v frustrat

She was just over 1100 g when we got her, so it's very possible that she was on the verge of hitting that "1k wall" prior to being sent off... she's also got some spider in her, and I call her "Ditzy" - I have a theory that her wobbleditz might have made the trip more traumatic for her, and she's just taking her SWEET STUPID TIME to re-acclimate. The day she eats something for us, I'm going to throw a party.

My worm is eating Rat Pups <3 My husband's Carpet is our resident garbage disposal! She's gained a third of her weight since we got her, and her strike is ferocious... but she's so funny, we can't just put the food down, she insists that we dangle and wiggle it for her. She knows it's dead - she'll come out and sniff at it, then pull her head back in - she doesn't care, but we have to PRESENT it, because presentation is key!

I'm not sure about the food temp. We thaw to room temp, and if it feels cool we'll blast it with the hair dryer for a few seconds, and we've never had a problem except with this one idiot girl.

DH would like to branch out, but I don't think Boas are in our future. ;) He keeps showing me pictures of really pretty ones! But I think BPs are what I'm most comfortable with... anything that gets much larger than that starts registering on my scareometer.

[MissKittyHP]

We tend to let their food thaw in the refrigerator than heat up water and put them in a plastic ziplock that way you don't have exploding mice. I have also heard they a good scent from the FT. That's stressful though, not knowing why she won't eat. But I do know with her being the size she is now that she might have started the I don't want to eat phase. Good luck though. She will eat again, I think she is just being a BP.


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