Quote Originally Posted by 200xth View Post
No. He's programmed through tens of millions of years of evolution to eat small rodents and birds. If you do decide to try live, he'll know exactly what to do with it.

As far as why he's not eating. Have you doublechecked your environment? Temps, humidity...make sure there are enough hides. It's possible something changed and is stressing him or irritating him.

How big is the food you are offering? It's possible he wants something smaller. I have a few who definitely prefer smaller meals and will not eat larger offerings.
i really don't know why he's so afraid...he started off clockwise with me...the only thing that changed is that the rats are light grey...but i also tried 2 smaller sizes than what he normally eats...he gets spooked when i get the rat near him (without touching him)

i even changed his substrate back to mulch last week in case the corrugated paper was stressing him. He is the only one that is so spooked...i'm really disappointed

Temps are fine...90 to 82 with 78-80 ambient. humidity is great too (have a pvc cage).