Hopefully this is my last update on this topic, I'm using it more now as a record of feeding dates, I'm starting a word document from here on out. Today I tried another fresh kill, it has been 13 days since his last meal. This time after about 5 minutes of him showing interest I got the rat out and put it under the CHE since it had cooled some. About 30 seconds after I put it in he struck and coiled up around it. I slowly left the dark room to leave him alone. I checked about 20 minutes later and it was laying in the substrate right where he was coiled up with it. I left it in there to see if he would eat it. After about an hour it was still laying there. I pulled it out and was going to lay it on top of the hide since that is where he ate the last one from. I heated it up one more time and as soon as I put it by the entrance he struck, coiled, and ate it this time. My plan is to try one more fresh kill and then try some F/T......