So, Auryn has been fasting since I moved him home from school back in mid-December. I have tried feeding him every week, and even skipped a week to see if it would make him hungry enough to strike. Nothing. I've given him a week after bringing him back to school without bugging him, his husbandry is right on (81 cool, 92 warm 55% humidity), so I was getting a little worried.

When I picked Auryn out at NERD, he was being fed live. Kara switched him to F/T before I brought him home and he's been eating F/T mice with me ever since. I tried switching to F/T rat pups during the summer and he wasn't having it. He went back to F/T mice without an issue.

So, when he decided he wasn't going to eat I was a little worried. I had to feed him live a couple times over the summer when I ran out of F/T, so when I tried yesterday to feed him again and he refused--again, I formualted a new plan. I picked up a live mouse from Petco today (they are the smallest "mice" I've ever seen ), and set it in his tub. Auryn struck and constricted almost immediately--I tried following up shortly after with a warm F/T, but he wasn't having any of it.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever had a F/T feeder abruptly refuse to eat F/T and become a live feeder? Or is this something that is a fluke and he'll go back to eating F/T? I know snakes are individual, but if someone has a similar story and resolution, I'd be interested to hear it.

If Auryn is going to only eat live, I'll need to find a source for it (I can't spend $2.50 each on half-grown mice every week). I also have about 45 F/T mice in my freezer...