I accept my novice rank but until I hit a picky eater myself I'm going to stand behind the notion that any BP can be switched to F/T with due vigilance. The OG I picked up the other day had never eaten F/T. The day after I picked her up I attempted feeding F/T and she struck and coiled off of the tongs and then let it go and ran to her hide. I warmed it back up and stuck it in there and she went over and just opened her mouth and pushed it down - obviously something she had never done before with live meals. This whole process was maybe 5 minutes.

I'll eat my words at some point. For now, I'm stubbornly refusing to believe that there is a snake that would emaciate itself before eating a dead rodent.

Slim, you used the word thrive, which is largely open to individual interpretation. I can't refute that on those grounds.