Quote Originally Posted by TheNunciate View Post
If I may chime in here....

I tried the chicken broth with mine when she was being finicky. It just freaked her out. what got her going was a little dirty gerbil bedding that I got from the pet store where I bought the frozen rat.

I have to disagree with the post saying that you should always feed them live to start and then move on to frozen. I don't see why you would want to endanger your snake in such an avoidable way. But that is just my opinion.

Also, sometimes moving the snake to another enclosure for feeding can just stress it out even more. If she's a new one, just feed her in her home, lay some paper towels down on the substrate if you're concerned about ingestion and use hemostats if you're concerned about getting chomped.

Good luck. It can be very stressful for the owner when the little lovelies won't eat. Keep us posted.

Good info! And I agree, I won't do live unless it becomes absolutely necessary because I'm a worry wort.

I've heard the gerbil bedding bit...may have to try that if the strike continues. I'm actually planning on feeding in the enclosure this time, but I'm going to have to take him out to weigh him and rearrange a bit in the enclosure, so I'm just going to bag him up in a paper sack with the FT fuzzy and pop him back in his home over night. The snake shop where I loiter said that 9 times out of 10 this gets all their finicky snakes to gobble up the little buggers.

I just want him to acclimate and EAT a few consecutive meals so that I can just have him hang out on me while I clean out his cage...but I figure it's best to sort of just bag him with the food while I do so and put him back home for now.