Quote Originally Posted by Blitzjg View Post
My 2.5 year old BP, who has been on frozen mice for awhile, he will eat 2 adults now, is big enough for larger prey. He tends to be somewhat fickle, but he has not shown much interest in thawed small rats. At first I thought it was a heat issue but I made sure this last attempt was really warm, he "smelled" and then retracted into his hide. Should I buy a live small rat and try that? Problem is I wouldn't know what to do if he didn't eat it. I just fed my corn so I couldn't try to pawn it off on him, and reptile stores are super far from where I live.
If you already have him on FT, you might want to avoid trying live. Sometimes they don't want to go back to frozen after eating live.

Some of them just don't like rats. If you try switching him and he doesn't take the FT rats, you may want to try jumbo mice.

They're about 35g to 40g, similar to a weaned rat.

Adult males don't need a lot of food. Some of them only eat four or five times a year, so a jumbo a week should be fine and you'll still have plenty of weeks where they don't eat. If you're really worried about him getting enough to eat in a single meal, you can give him two jumbos.