Quote Originally Posted by BluuWolf View Post
So he will go to strike at it but then end up not? He defiantly seems interested then. How often are you feeding him? Typically you don't want to feed them more then once every 7 - 10 days. If you are waiting that amount of time and he still won't take then perhaps try and drop feed him instead. Just kinda make it dance around a bit to get him to notice that it's there then set it down in the tank and see if he'll go for it that way.

Also I was just a little confused about how you worded your whole heating situation. Is it you have a lamp or something on one side and a heat mat on the other or just a heat mat on one side?
Yes I have my heating lap on one side and when I turn it off I put a heating mat under the opposite side at night because my room is freezing. I did all that, pets Mart had him on a schedule where I feed him every Friday. They were feeding him eight Fuzzy's for him to be so young. He is quite big for his age, when I got him the first week I fed him 2 small mice because that's what they told me to do and then the next Friday I fed him once mice because that's all he'll eat. and then this Friday he gets in attack mode like he's ready but seems to be a little bit squeamish he's striked a few times but missed, yhe was breathing pretty hard so I got nervous I don't want to stress him out or anything and he was shaking. Also not forgetting I changed his bedding earlier this day so I have a feeling that might have be the problem but I'm not sure.So I left the mice in there for a little bit. Saturday I try to do it again he wanted to eat but this time he seemed scared still he just kind of sat in the Striking mode looking at it. And then when I went to get it out of the cage he was frightened of my hand. So I don't know what's exactly wrong. I looked up and some people say he might be constipated or just doesn't want to use the energy.