Alright, getting a little fed up honestly. In April of this year I got my dream morph, the low white piebald BP. Extremely beautiful female, she came to me around 170g and feeding live only. All my other snakes are eating frozen and I want her eating it as well.
My girl came to me very feisty, so I tried to handle her a couple days per week but I make sure she has *atleast* a 24hr break between. She has not calmed down at all over the months and I'm getting bitten all the time.
She's also refusing to do the switch to frozen. She is only 240g now because I was attempting to be very stubborn with her feeds. We saw a vet though who thinks shes slightly thin so I've let her have a few live meals. I believe her enclosure to be correct, warm side of 91 and cool side around 80ish, fluctuates a little now with the approaching cold weather. The humidity is harder but I try and get it around 60% for normal days and I spike up an extra 10% for sheds.
I personally don't believe it to be the enclosure because when I do allow the live meals she eats perfectly fine. I'd keep doing them but she got bit once and I really just don't want to keep doing it if it can be helped. Not to mention our only rat supplier just went out of business and I have yet to find a reliable private breeder.
I've tried basic forms of scenting like dirty bedding and rubbing frozen and live together. Im hesitant to try other forms like the ASF juice because i havent seen any reveiws of people actually using it. Does chicken broth/tuna/whatever work on bps?
I've tried putting her in a small critter keeper overnight with one, ive left one in her warm hide overnight, also tried feeding in a different bin just to try and start something but it never works. I was also curious if her defensive behavior had anything to do with it. Like should I be trying harder to tame her down first before I start thinking about frozen?
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