Hey Guys,

So as some of you know, I got a bunch of het. axanthics earlier in the year that were feeding on Live ASF. I hate ASF... I have tried everything to switch them over.

Lately I have been experimenting with a technique called piggy backing. Basically what this is is when you feed your BP it's prey of choice, in this case ASF, and while it is finishing swallowing the prey of choice, you insert the head of a F/T Norway in the snakes mouth. As it continues swallowing you hold the rat's head in the Ball Pythons mouth until it hooks in and consumes both prey.

Every time I feed I start by offering the frozen thawed Norway first. It took me 3 weeks of this technique before my female pastel het. ax finally took the F/T Norway!

Long story short - I managed to switch my ball python over from Live ASF to Frozen Norways in 3 weeks, with no steps in between.

I will try to post a video of the piggy backing technique once my other two Natal eaters come out of their breeding fast.

Thanks for reading .