Fun stuff for snakes?

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Are you feeding live rodents? If so, try offering a fresh-killed or frozen-thawed hopper. If he's good & hungry, he should take it alright. It's NOT okay to keep feeding 2 fuzzies instead- BECAUSE the more mature the rodents are, the better nutrition they are for your snake, in terms of more protein & larger bones providing minerals so he grows & is healthy. The younger "baby" rodents are less filling due to being more digestible (tiny bones, less hair, etc) and they're higher in fat because they're still nursing. So you see, it's not a good trade off, your boy needs to grow up & "eat his Wheaties". Don't baby him, he needs to grow strong, not just fat.

I only feed F/T, so he's not scared of live hoppers, he's scared of DEAD ones, lol. I've only done the two-fuzzies-at-once thing 3 times (so, less than a month), and I was going to try another hopper at his next feeding tomorrow, though he may not eat since he's in blue. I know he needs to move up in prey size, but if the other option is him not eating at all, and thus not growing or shedding, I'd rather give him what he will eat even if it's for a limited time, ya know? He had gone almost a month without eating, which I know isn't that long, but he hadn't shed since early November so I know he wasn't growing, and he was about 1/3 the size of his siblings in the SD video and it worried me. At least now he's having a growth spurt and about to shed again, so I feel better that he's back on track and plan to offer him another hopper now that he's bigger - maybe it won't be so scary this time, lol.