I've got a few picky eaters that won't eat every week. However, I just learned a great lesson. I bought an 800 gram het for Pied female from Adam recently. I fed her yesterday for the first time. She wouldn't take the live small rat. I opened the tub, put the rat inside the tub and left for 30 minutes. Came back and she hadn't taken the rat.

Now realize, I asked Adam the usual questions about his husbandry. I got all the right answers. So I was confident there wouldn't be a problem, but here she was not eating.

I happened to be browsing the web and decided I'd go to 8Ball Pythons, Adam's web page. There was a video showing how he fed his snakes. There, while watching, the light bulb went off and I went in to the snakeroom, got the rat, fed the snake JUST LIKE Adam did in his video and the snake coiled around that rat like the best feeder you could ever want.

So, sometimes it's not the snake's fault, it's that we aren't doing something correctly and the snake has to learn how to live with us.

These snakes survive and thrive dispite our worst efforts.
Jim Smith