When to consider assist feeding when you only have a short history of a bp's care?

[Gemini Pythons]

YOU DO NOT assist an animal that knows how to eat that is that simple.

When you buy adults it's a pretty typical issue to have, 50% of the adults I have ever received (loan usually) would take up to a year to resume feeding, they just take a lot longer for some to adjust to their new surrendering.

The first thing I would bet on is the fact that she is a picky eater period 4 years old less than a 1000 grams is a huge red flag when it comes to feeding habit.

Thank you! Another user mentioned this and honestly, it never even occurred to me. The breeder maintenance feeds, so all the young adults we've gotten from him who have never been bred are always small for their age. As soon as we get them, they become FANTASTIC eaters though... I feel silly admitting this, but the idea that they were maintenance fed AND are a bad eater never actually occurred to either of us! Thank you for the reassurance.

And BTW ASF are not what they are cracked up to be mice are actually a lot more enticing to problem feeders.

Interesting, I've never heard this! The one ASF was the only thing she was really into. We tried mice as well and they were ignored, but to be fair, she's been ignoring most food, haha. For us, we've never really had an issue with adult problem eaters before (outside of hatchlings of course) so this was actually the first time in ten years that we've tried one!