Ok, so I made an account on this site specifically just so I could ask this question. If this thread's in the wrong place I'm sorry.

So basically I bought my first (and only) BP almost exactly a month ago, she's a cute little pewter hatched about two months ago. I bought her from an online breeder and had a little bit of communication with him before I actually bought her and he informed me she was eating live small mice, and had fed a total of 4 times before I received her. I got her the day that would have been her 5th feeding but I figured it would be fine to give her a week to settle in and whatnot.

I'm not usually a big fan of live mice, although I had a snake that used to only eat live, I fully intended to feed my new BP totally f/t. So I bought small f/t mice from LayneLabs, and tried feeding my BP a week after I got her by thawing it up, warming it up with some hot water, and wiggling it a little bit to get her to go for it. No luck. So I struck that off and decided to try again the next week. And then she didn't eat again, so the next week and so on and so on.

Essentially it's gotten to the point where my little BP is nearly 10 weeks old, and hasn't eaten in 6 weeks. I've tried everything I could find:
  • Small f/t mice
  • Small live mouse
  • Fuzzy f/t mice
  • Combinations of the f/t mice heated with either hot water or a blow drier
  • Feeding the BP in 2 different feeding tubs, and in her tank
  • Scenting the mouse with tuna juice
  • Braining the mouse and leaving it a few inches from her hide
  • Braining the mouse and leaving it in her hide
  • Braining the mouse and wiggling it around, both in a separate feeding tub and in her tank


She's not afraid of the mouse, she's more just what I'd describe as uninterested! If I grab the mouse by the tail and move it around, she either just goes off and does something else or tries to climb up my arm. If I leave the mouse in the tank for a couple hours/over night she doesn't seem interested either, even when I tried putting the mouse in the opening of her favorite hide (which covered the entire length of the opening) my BP just went over the mouse to climb into her hide! I genuinely have no idea what to do anymore. I've asked for advice from friends/acquaintances with lots of BP experience and I've exhausted all their advice.

I've got her in a 40-gallon glass tank, sectioned into a 20-gallon with a hefty slab of cardboard. We use the other side to store extra substrate and climbing branches. The bottom is lined with paper towels with reptibark on top of it. I have three hides in her tank, a water dish and some tree branches and some fake vines she loves to climb on. She's active and she isn't shy. She's gotten really used to my roommates and I walking around (she's in the living room right now because it's the quietest place for her to be), and doesn't freeze up even if someone walks up close to her tank. She's very active at night and climbs around her tank from about 7:30-sunrise every night. I actually watched her drink water while I was only a few feet away today. She's not skittish and is very curious and adventurous. I heat the her tank with a UTH, and keep one hide right on top of it. The warm side of the tank hovers between 88-93 degrees, and the cool side is around 80-85. The humidity never drops below 50% and sometimes gets as high as 75% depending on what the weather is like outside.

Please, any help would be wonderful. My fiance and I are at our wits end and it's getting to the point that we've started to keep our eyes out for people in the area who would be able to take better care of her than us. But she's an absolute sweetheart, and I don't want to have to do anything like that if I don't have to. I'm sure there's got to be something I'm missing! Thanks.