I don't THINK he's fasting at least. Here's the latest feeding attempt where you can see him following the prey around with his head and tongue flicking.
Anyway this persisted for over an hour and the mouse started getting scared (vibrating it's tail) so I gassed it and offered it pre-killed hoping he was just too shy to kill it or something. My bp had 0 interest in the pre-kill... he didn't even recognize it like it was food (same with f/t). orz
I didn't catch it on video but he is also yawning a few times during the process of watching the mouse run around. I've never seen him do that before. Usually he only yawns once after swallowing food, so I'm worried he might have some jaw injury preventing him from wanting to strike.
The last food he accepted (4 weeks ago) was a live small rat and the feeding looked unusual to me because he struck the rat so hard it started bleeding http://i.imgur.com/sAvySUH.jpg I've been feeding this guy live (though mostly mice before) and have never seen the prey bleed before so I'm not sure if he just struck it extra hard or something. He then refused a rat the next week so I started reoffering large mice again. Still no go.
It could be a possible husbandry issue, I use ambient heat only (83 deg) since it's very warm where I live but recently upgraded to a 50% larger tub as he was growing to be half the size of the last one (you can see where he's eating the rat)
Any tips? I'm pulling my hair out
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