So for my first 6 snakes, I've been lucky to have hefty boys who readily eat ANYTHING.
But now I have all of these baby(ish) balls (2014-2013) that I've acquired this year. They're irritating me to no end with their finickiness about accepting frozen. I'm seriously having the hardest time getting them to eat F/T, although they are all aggressively eating *live/freshly killed. One of them even was just transferred to F/T by the breeder right before I got her, ate one frozen rat pup for me, and upon being placed in my rack directly below one of my dreaded live-mouse eaters, she reverted back to only accepting live mice.
Are there any tricks to getting them to eat F/T without wasting a bunch of thawed rats? I'm tired of leaving them in there and finding them the next day, uneaten and unusable. I have also tried frozen mice. I've tried scenting the F/T rats like mice, etc. It's driving me nuts, because three of the bigger "babies" really should start taking rats that are just slightly larger than adult mice.
I have a hard time with the "tough love" approach too, as some people have suggested to me. I feed my snakes once a week every week unless they're shedding. I have a hard time "waiting them out" until they bend to my will. There has to be another/better way.
Thanks in advance.
*Live = Freshly killed/incapacitated
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