I've only owned (my still unnamed) BP for about a week, but I finally got him to eat!! After futily trying to feed him F/t pinkies, I decided to go with a live mouse today. I think the tank is currently too big for him, because when I dropped the mouse in, my BP didn't go for it. So I put balled up newspapers in the tank to make it about half the size. I then waited about an hour, and did something which I'm sure you guys will think is dumb @@@ hell. I took the mouse and dangled it by its tail 3 or 4 inches away from my BP's face. Within about 30 seconds, my snake struck the mouse and took him down!! (I was soooo elated)


I was also a lil surprised by how long the whole process took. I'd say maybe 20 minutes from strike to sucking down the tail. It took him a lil while to find the tail (he tried to eat the @@@ first, but after a few tries he realized that was impracticable). Then he really took his time getting it down. I think the mouse was a lil bigger than it should have been for his first live meal. (I know the general rule is that it shouldn't be thicker than the thickest part of the snake's body).
-And I know not to handle him for a couple days now.