Hi everyone, I recently got a dum, about 3 weeks ago. She's about 6-8 months old, she seems all good and healthy from what I can tell. I know that she was fed live adult mice weekly when I got her.

She hasn't eaten yet and her reaction to feeding seemed a bit strange to me. I'm fairly sure her setup is reasonable temperature/humidity-wise. I had two hides and a large water bowl with space under the bowl, she wasn't a big fan of the hides and kept hiding under the bowl so I replaced the hides (~1 week ago), now she spends most of her time under the warm hide. Substrate is coco-fiber. She goes out at night and wonders a bit and also sometimes hangs outside the hide, I also know she drinks from the bowl. Outside of the feeding all seems fine to me. As a side note she's also very calm when handling (although I have been avoiding handling for the most part until she's stable about eating).

I tried feeding her 4 times now, I left her alone the first week to get used to her new environment. When giving f/t food I always use tongs and try to move the food. Tried giving f/t adult mice and she struck at it defensively after a while (no coiling) so I assumed she didn't want to eat. Second time, a week later, I tried live since that's what I was told she ate. She seemed defensive and wasn't going for the food. After moving the mice closer she struck at the adult mice a couple times, again no coiling. During one strike she almost coiled so I thought maybe she wants to eat so I tried wiggling the mouse a bit but she wouldn't eat it. Waited one more week, tried f/t, brained fuzzy rat (just to see if that's more interesting to her, size was appropriate), she seemed very interested this time and struck the rat outside of her hide but still no coiling. I left the rat near her warm hide, she just left the warm hide instead of eating. Since I thought she was clearly interested in eating this time, I waited 4-5 hours and tried giving her an adult mice, brained and also poked a hole in the stomach. Even before the feeding attempt she was outside of her hide, looking towards the food since she most likely could smell it. When I tried giving the food she went back into her warm hide, tried giving it to her, she struck at it a couple times, no coiling. I left the food near her warm hide overnight, she just left the food, left her warm hide entirely again.

Maybe I'm overreacting but she seemed very into the food but just wouldn't eat. I'm guessing because she's used to live, but I don't understand the no coiling if that's the case. I'm guessing I'm overreacting and it's because she is used to live mice, shy about eating in front of me (although I did basically just left her alone with the f/t food after she struck it a couple times) and not used to the environment yet (since she has been using the new hides only for a week now). Another possible issue I guess could be the tongs with the f/t food and she doesn't see it as food and just defensively strikes it and thus doesn't coil? (I'm assuming she wasn't comfortable with the environment when I gave live). Any thoughts?