new to the forum. i bought a male ball python three weeks ago. he's about ... 15 inches or so i'd guess.

anyway everything was fine, i had hiding spots, branches to climb, no problem with temp or humidity. but he wouldn't eat. i wasn't too bothered, i'd read plenty of places they go off feed occassionally. still, it was worrisome. anyway today the pet store was out of frozen mice, and we were talking, and contrary to what i was told, at petco they feed the balls live mice. so i figured i'd give it a shot, since he hadn't eaten in the three weeks i'd had him. i had thawed it out with a heat lamp the first time and dangled it in front of him with no effect. the next time, i tried to leave him alone with it in a paper bag. the result was he climbed out of the bag. heh.

but the live feeding worked like a charm, about 10 seconds after i put mousey in, xerxes(his name) came out and snatched him up. :shock:

do you think it's worth it trying to wean him off of live mice? he's shown no interest in the thawed ones even when i jiggled them around quite extensively. and he won't even investigate them if i just let them lie there.

thanks.