Quote Originally Posted by ryleyb View Post
He hasn’t eaten for a couple months and as of right now he only eats live, which i’ve offered to him about a week and a half ago in his original set up and I offered it to him today, no luck. Let’s just hope he gets settled down soon. Some days I do see him in his warm hide for just a little bit of time.
How long have you had him? Is his weight currently good? When you first get a snake from any source, & especially if it's an adult, it's best not to offer food for at least a week or 2, because at first, they'll be too nervous to accept, or if they do, they might regurgitate it, & that's worse than if they didn't eat at all. (Because then you need to wait a couple weeks before offering food again, to give them time to replenish their digestive enzymes- otherwise they can regurgitate again, & that's a health risk & best avoided.)

Offering too frequently may get more refusals too- it adds to their stress, because they're basically shy. For an adult snake, offering about every 2 weeks is fine. This time of year, many BPs go on a fast anyway.

HOW you offer makes all the difference: Wait until evening, dim the lights- BPs are ambush predators, meaning they wait from a hiding place for clueless prey to walk near enough to grab. Never try to feed a snake that's roaming their enclosure, they instinctively avoid feeding in the open & likely to refuse. (In the wild, other predators may catch them while they're distracted with feeding.) Wait for them to be peeking out of their hide in the evening hours...that's usually your signal that they're thinking about prey.

While we favor feeding dead prey (safer for the snake & more humane for the prey), it's better to feed a new snake what they're used to eating at first, & after they've accepted a few meals with you (once they've "settled in"), then work on changing to either fresh-killed or frozen-thawed prey. We can help you when you come to that point, many tips will improve your success.