Hi! Got my BP home last Friday morning. He was shipped so had a pretty extensive journey to get here. Breeder told me to offer him food maybe the next night. He was out that evening exploring a bit looking at me through the glass so I thought he might be hungry. Thing is: he’s been eating live, I offered him F/T to see if he’d take it. He was in his hide and went to strike towards it (not sure I’d strike was in defense or actually trying to get it) and my husband who was feeding think he might have bonked his nose against the hide. After that he pulled back in and had absolutely no interest in the prey. It could potentially have been too large of a rat for him (I went by what reptile store here told me for his 270 grams). We tried leaving rat in the cage for an hour and tried giving it in the morning again with no luck so threw it out. So now to the next question:
how soon is good to re offer food to him? He hasn’t been out exploring at all from what I’ve seen after except from going between hot hide and cool hide although maybe his been out during the night. Not sure if I should wait until I see him out looking around more and seem hungry before. Thinking of either getting a smaller f/t maybe mouse or for this first time going with a live mouse. I really want to get him on f/t but for now just want to make sure that he eats.
Any ideas?
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