All my ball pythons are on f/t!

[loonunit]

It's been a two year project getting all my animals onto f/t, with relapses and set backs and problem feeders. (Boys, I'm looking at you.) But I just realized--I haven't bought a live mouse in over a month. And everyone is eating!

Some of them are still picky about rats vs. mice, but every single animal in my collection is taking f/t!

Every. Single. One! WHEW.

[rexrem]

Congrats!!

[babyknees]

Lucky! Good work. I'd love to get some tips from you because I'm convinced that my picky eater (also a boy) will never take frozen and my albino girl relapsed and now turns her nose up at frozen.

[loonunit]

Lucky! Good work. I'd love to get some tips from you because I'm convinced that my picky eater (also a boy) will never take frozen and my albino girl relapsed and now turns her nose up at frozen.

Wait until mid summer, it'll never work until it warms up. But hopefully by July or August their appetites will be picking up again.

After that, you just have to skip weeks. You want this f/t mouse? No? Then I guess you're not hungry enough. Maybe next week. Still no? I guess you're still not hungry enough...

I actually would offer them live, but only every other week. And only hoppers or small adults. And I would offer them a fat f/t as seconds--sometimes they would take the f/t as a second helping, but not as a first.

My 2007 het lavender male took SIX MONTHS to switch and he relapsed more than once. But he's been taking large f/t mice steadily for almost a year now, and he's beginning to put on real weight. (He's still half the size of his girlfriend, who's also a 2007 and -only- took 2 months to switch to f/t.)

[loonunit]

Oh, and, neither of the 2007s will touch a rat. So I might try rats again in August? But at this point I'm just happy they eat.

[loonunit]

And there was a lot of me yelling and cursing at certain aggravating animals. I don't think it actually sped the process up any, but it made me feel better.

[Snakefreak64]

And there was a lot of me yelling and cursing at certain aggravating animals. I don't think it actually sped the process up any, but it made me feel better.

ya that, lmao.

[Simple Man]

Congrats

Regards,

B