Young voracious BP refuses to eat new Egyptian mice

[Pitonica]

Hello, Im quite new here and would appreciate some help and answers. Snake has 7 months, 300g, healthy... is with me for 2months, was eating like crazy, normal small mice, frozen thawed. I ordered an amount of 30g a piece Egyptian mice as I heard they are one of the best for BP. Also read its good to offer them different rodents so they don't imprint on one kind. At the moment I can't get any normal mice he ate before. Offered him Egyptian mouse last week and he ate it.. today is just not interested. I reheated it in water again, than a bit with a hairdryer. I tried in his encloser, in the tub where he usualy eats with no stress..cause I have forest bark in terarium, big chunks-got stuck in his mouth once, freaked out, so he eats in tub since than and eats fine, edacious little punk. Must get another substrate, I thought aspen shavings?
Anyway, today, striked at the new mouse but didn't even coil around it.. Now he sits in his warm house with a cold mouse infront of his nose and ignores for 1h. When to throw it away?? Ya he is soon going into shed, his eyes n skin are milky., but that didn't stop him before- he was realy so voracious at any time. His temps are fine, same as before. I heard snakes refuse to eat sometimes and nothing wrong with that but I think its due to different smell of mice...

Please, Can someone please suggest me in what way I can make him eat, how long can I keep it in his enclosure and how many times I can reheat it and refrigerate it again before throwing it away?



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[Stewart_Reptiles]

BP are finicky eaters and offering divers preys make very little sense with that species and often makes the matter worse, once you find a prey that works feed what works there is no best when it comes to rodent (gram per gram is all the same). You also want to feed what is readily available and affordable.

As for a f/t prey once it is thawed the decomposition process resumes so if not eaten if should be disposed of.

[Oxylepy]

DO NOT REFREEZE. And I'd avoid the refrigerator as well.

If you thaw and heat it to feed, then recool/refreeze it, and thaw/heat it again you have a rodent that will likely explode when coiled, freaking your snake out, removing a lot of the nutritional benefit, but more over leading to a horrifying mess