This is a clearly long term project I am very interested in results but we as a community need to be patient it will take time.

Aaron, I wonder what it will be like as adults. I personally find sub adult snakes rarely refuse and will often feed even after events that are stressful, (like travelling my latest addition was interested (and fed) they day he was driven 770 Km in a bag. I got him home at 2 pm and he showed interest in feeding (feeding day) so I thawed a pinkie for him and presto.) I have only a few animals under 900gm range refuse at all, it is over that mark that I get refusals. My oldest (20+) refuses regularly. I wonder if the back side might be influenced by this or not. It may take a couple of rounds to get more reliable results. I can't say but with a small sampling it may take a lot of repeated results to make up for that.