I guess it just depends on the snake to determine whether or not I get excited. ALL my corns except one eat anything that jumps into their feed bins. I do have one baby corn that only eats live, but she's usually pretty consistent. I just have to make the 30 mile round trip to get it for her. I'll be SUPER excited when she finally decides that F/T is just as tasty as live.

But that brings us to the ball pythons...my normal girl eats ANYTHING I toss into her tub: F/T, live, mice, rats, etc. and I can always alternate and she'll always eat (for example...if I bought a live mouse for the spider ball python and she doesn't eat it...I give it to the normal and she'll gobble it down. The next week she'll eat a F/T rat like she normally gets). Naturally, when she eats, it's not all that exciting because she eats consistently! She was a rescue...so for her first month of feedings I was always excited because I wanted to know that she would recover from being malnourished (6 month old weighing 44g when I got her )

Then I have a new lesser boy (I've had him for a total of 6 days). I was really excited when it gobbled up a live rat fuzzy the other day. I'll be even more excited when he decides to switch to F/T.

But then there's my spider girl. She won't eat rats. She only eats mice. Even still, she usually skips a feeding. She's a little afraid of live mice (I tried one when I couldn't get her eating F/T and when she would strike, the mouse would jump and it scared her to the point where she would ignore it). Usually I can get her to consistently eat F/T mice as long as they are SUPER hot. I usually must blow dry it. I can never truly predict when she's going to eat. I wish she would decide to eat every feeding...then she might actually be ready to breed next season.