You seem to have already figured this problem out, and I am a newbie owner too, so take what I am saying with a grain of salt, but when you try again you might want to hang out and watch your guy eat. My boy struck, coiled and then dropped his last meal, but it was obvious he still wanted it, he just didn't know what to do. He had a bad strike, caught it in the middle, and couldn't swallow it, then he spit it out and just kept looking for it, (he is pretty, but apparently not too bright). I just picked up the rodent, reheated the head and tried again. Luckily my boy is an eating machine who really really wanted that rat, cause it took him 5 tries and 30 minutes to get a good strike. Once he did he swallowed it down. Your snake might just not know what to do with a F/Ted if it gets a bad strike. If he is game, I would watch him and keep trying to set him up with a good strike.
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