Quote Originally Posted by tttaylorrr View Post
a beep will not eat if their husbandry is not correct. husbandry is a huge part of owning a beep.
a striking beep means he's hungry or stressed.
you do not feed a new beep for at least 5 days and you absolutely do NOT handle a new beep until they have successfully eaten a few times.
tell us about your enclosure because this sounds like a husbandry issue: all temp readings, heat sources and thermostats, hides and enclosure sizes.
He's in a 36"x24" enclosure with heat lamp on left side at about 92 and heat pad in the middle that keeps the hide about 88 and then on the cool side on the right it stays around 80-82 it seems. I have three hides left middle and right, all of which he has plenty of space.

Ive always fed new snakes about the forth day in and it's normally an instant hit with them. But like I've said I'm not experienced with bps but what you've said has helped and an update is, I left a new rodent in over night and it was gone when I woke up this morning so I guess he finally was up to it