Feeding day for me takes about two hours with mostly everyone on f/t. Honestly at first I would ask breeders what they were feeding the snakes (rats, mice, f/t, live, etc..) now I have scraped asking. I make sure it is eating well and then do it my normal way until proven personally it cannot be that way.
I have the world's pickiest albino male python. He came to me eating f/t rat pups. He only eats the rat pups if they are extremely hot and the head has to be wet (). Then he decided he only wants to eat f/t adult mice. After that he would only eat small f/t rats. Back to f/t mice. Skipped two meals and this Sunday he ate a live mouse only if I would hold it still with the tongs
I have a normal ball python who refused to eat f/t for my girlfriend. She ate live mice a few times with me. Then wouldn't eat. Now only eats f/t mice hoppers if I deliver them to her hide for her.The breeder would feed her stunned mice with apparently no problem.
They are not all like this at all. I have ten ball pythons and most of them eat the f/t right off the tongs even after eating live previously. They have even gone from f/t to live back to f/t. It really seems to be more of finding the right "trick" to getting your's to eat the way you want to.
That being said my first ball python was a male, big boy. He would only eat live white mice. I tried every which way to get him to eat anything else and no dice. He was happy with his two or three live mice every week.
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