How difficult is it to switch a BP's food type?

[ckuhn003]

Hello,

I'm looking to buy my first BP, and because I'm interested in a particular morph and I only have a couple options.

Option 1: feeds one feeds on F/T MICE

Option 2: feeds on LIVE RAT

Both snakes are around the 150 gram range.


I want to feed my pet f/t rats, which snake do you think is most likely to make the transition?
If worse came to worse, I would rather feed live rats, opposed to owning a snake that exclusively eats mice.


Whats your advice? Thank You.

My advice (and I wish I would of realized this a couple years ago) would skip the BP and go with something like a BOA who doesn't refuse a meal. But that's not really good advice since this is a BP site and your heart is set on a BP. I'll just give you my experience on feeding a BP. It was really tough for me to switch from F/T mice to F/T rats and I almost gave up. But I was persistent and tried a lot of tricks. I think the most helpful trick for me was covering the F/T rat in dirty mouse bedding to get the scent of a mouse just before offering. It seemed to work and helped me get over that hump. Now I just deal w/ the normal BP meal refusals while my BOA gobbles everything offered to him. Good luck!