A snake that will take live but not FT will often take a prekilled rodent. Some snakes that don't take FT (or better: some instances of snakes not taking FT) are due to the fact that the snake doesn't like something about the particular source of the rodent; often enough, switching sources (a different store that buys from some other rodent producer) is enough to get the snake feeding on FT. More on that below:Originally Posted by Ziggy31984
[QUOTE=Ziggy31984;2789086]Thank you this isn’t his first hunger strike with me and the occasional is around thanksgiving, Christmas and birthday thing and now when there not the size rat that I’m looking for I have noticed that he started liking smallish rats he was getting medium before a few months ago to last year as long as he’s healthy,eats when he wants and hopefully happy that’s all I care
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A male BP is likely best on small rats anyway, and the smaller prey items have some tendency to keep a snake from refusing food.
Related to this and the 'different rodent source' issue: buying a bag or two of frozen rats from a quality online supplier (which as far as I've figured out at this point is Perfect Prey and no others) will both help avoid the occasional 'doesn't like this source' risk and also eliminate the issue of not finding the size you're looking for locally. Having rats shipped is not as expensive as a person might think, though the benefit to the snake would be worth extra money anyway.
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