so i have had my male bp for almost 2 years now, and here is deal, when i first got him he guzzled anything i put infront of him, even the occasional rat that was def too big for him, but he has downed them all, until he reached around 800 grams,that was about a year or so ago, after that when saw that he would run away and hide when ever i threw a rat in there, i started with mouses and he would take those, every once in a while atleast. So i started getting fustrated because i could not understand why the sudden change. And it got worse, because he went from no rats at all, to 2 mice at a time, to 1 mouse then ignore the second one. So for the last 7 months or so, he will ONLY eat mice. Here how it goes, hes hiding almost everyday (i know a hiding bp is a happy bp) and the only time i see him is when he is hungry. One day i will just check on her and i will see half his body out of one of his hides just staring outside the tank almost as if saying "hey bro, was up with some food?" i go to the store buy a mouse drop it in, hell take it quickly, and go back to his hide, and see ya, wont see him again until next time he is hungry, which at this point is anywhere from 3-4 weeks.

I tried to be slick once and when he was in his "any food for me" stance outside his hide, id try a small rat, well hell get all excited flick his tongue a bit, realize its a rat, and hes gone. Then he wont come back out for another week, almost as if he saw the rat and did;t want to come out the whole time just incase that rat is still out there. So anyway i did;t try that move until a few weeks later, and this time i did it with a ASF rat, and nothing! this freaking guy is serious! When that happened i thought for sure that there had to be something wrong, but sure enough next feeding time, i dropped the mouse in there and in less than a second he would take it.


I gave up on trying rats, and just gave him what he wanted. But now i see all these youtube vids of BP's and there all nice and plump, and my guy he dosent look like that. I mean hes not loosing weight, because i weight him every month, and he lingers between 970-983, he never would loose like a couple of grams at a time, and he still sheds, atleast 3 times in the past 4-5 months.

Anybody have any suggestions? Oh and as far as hubandry, it dosent get any perfect and spot on then mine. So thats not the issue.