Hi everyone, I have a FT conversion question. I have 4 healthy juvenile ball pythons. One is totally converted to FT rat pinkies, but the other 3 are very hesitant. Part of the problem is that the only small live food I have access to is small adult mice (I can't get rat pinkies/pups live). So the other 3 are on live mice.

Now, I have been trying to get the three BP's onto FT rat pinkies, but I think part of the problem is that I am trying to jump from mice to rats and from live to FT all at the same time. On a previous post someone mentioned skipping a meal as well as not letting the BP's even have a sniff of a mouse in order to help them switch.

Should I try and not let them smell mice and keep doing the zombie rat dance? Or should I maybe try and get some live mice, kill & freeze them, and then thaw them out so the snakes get used to eating FT before switching species?

I guess overall I'm very happy they are good eaters, but having to feed live is a pain my bum and expensive.

Thanks,

JonV