My only addition to the advice here would be to get into a feeding day (night) routine with the snake. Do the same routine over and over each week and make it a different routine than the normal everyday one. Our snakes seem to know by our feeding day routine (plus their own instincts kicking in) that's it's time to get down to business and are more than ready to eat by the time the live prey is introduced.

Heck our little 8 month old male BP, Malachi, will be parked on top of his warm side hide, in full strike position by the morning of feeding day and gawd help the silly human that doesn't offer him his yummy rat pups! He'll take a jab or two at me that day (though is a darling any other day) but he knows it's time to eat and is an impatient baby LOL. Gotta love a snake with a strong feeding response!