So I bought my beautiful super pastel 4 weeks ago tomorrow and I've tried feeding 5 times including pk, f/t, and live and he never even showed interest. Well I decided to tried another f/t tonight with little hope. I thawed and heated and he has one of those exo Terra large snake caves so I kept putting the head in and out of the hole and he struck and I dropped it, I was like oh f@$k I messed up so I tried again and kept inching it through the hole and he struck and took it! The only thing is I can't see inside to see if he ate it and if everything is going ok. Should I wait till morning? Should I wait an hr? Or what?
What I did this time was instead of taking the frozen rat out of the vacuum sealed bag I thawed right in it and then turned on my electric heater and turned it toward his cage and held rat with tongs and blasted it with heat until it was 100 degrees. Should I do this every time or was he just ready?
This is seriously one of the happiest moments in my life! I didn't think this day would come for awhile. Hopefully he did eat it.
Sorry if I'm over reacting, all my other herps eat like crazy and I've never have had trouble feeding them. A bp is definitely a new challenge for me, especially bc I'm not the patient type.
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