Young snake won't take F/T, try live next?

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Oh derp I totally missed that second paragraph the first time I read the op. You definitely need to move him to a smaller enclosure, that's likely the reason why he doesn't want to eat.



I've never heard this before and I find it really interesting. So you have first hand experience with snakes not wanting to eat food after it's been sitting in hot water for too long? I wonder what changes in the rat to make it undesirable after it's been "overcooked".

Not for too long. It was in water that was too hot. The only reason I mentioned it was that the OP said "was heated up in hot, not boiling, water". I took that to mean really hot water. I might be wrong there but I def have first hand experience. I did it in extremely hot water to speed up the process and I wasted a mouse by basically cooking it. My snake walked up and said "Dude, I said thawed and warmed. Not well done". And that was that.