You have a 70 gram baby and you need about 10g of food for him. You only have 2 g of food there. Way way way to little. On top of that you are trying to feed ft to what sounds like a new baby. Not going to happen and I wouldn't even bother with ft right now or pinkies. Don't bother with pinkies at all. They aren't enough food. Like I said you need about 10g of food for that little guy. Get a live mouse hopper. Feed at night. Once you get him on an established feeding pattern. He should be eating every week. Then try ft and stick with whatever he is eating. Don't bother trying to do all that now though. Also most snakes don't like things dangled in their faces. Or above their heads. The best way to offer ft is about 6 inches away from them. They can see it no problem. But getting up in their face is never going to work well, thats just stressful.
A baby will grow quickly and that's why it's important to offer 15% of body weight. He will graduate from mouse hoppers to small adults to adults very quickly. I'd say try switching him to ft once he's on adult mice. I personally find live easier but at this point in time it's 100% necessary to grab live appropriately sized food.
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