I was hoping that just the scent of gerbils would be enticing enough. Lots of people on various forums have issues with BPs stuck on gerbils as food so that must mean that they're more appealing than mice or rats.. so thought it'd be worth a try since gerbil bedding is readily available one room over at home.
Tentative plan is to thaw out of the bedding next time, gauge his interest, and either feed without or rub the thawed rat in some bedding to get him to keep taking frozen. When I fed the other snakes later yesterday (no more bedding in the room) he was already poking out of his hide looking expectant only a few hours later.
I've never really heard the live feeders make noise once they were wrapped. There was one mouse that squeaked when he struck right next to it and missed (which jumped over him and half the cage), but he seems to grab tight enough that they don't make noise I can hear.
It sounds plausible though.. slightly morbid, but my corn snake (exclusive eater of F/T) struck and wrapped hard enough on a thawed hopper mouse that it made a sort of drawn out squeaking sound as he forced the air out of its lungs the first second or so of his wrap. Clearly just a case of him grabbing right and pushing air out if the lungs past the vocal chords. Not something that happens when thawed in water directly, but sometimes I put a bag of rodents in the water instead. I've heard it twice, but only from his strikes.
Made me think I had a super powered mouse.. survived being frozen and thawed out or something.
At over 100 grams, he still wraps it 100%.
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