Great shed pic Sheree! Glad to hear you've found the trick to get Neptune to take his f/t rat.

When we fed f/t we found also that putting the prey in a natural position against the substrate and just sort of zombie walking it around did the trick. Instead of grasping it by the tail with the hemostats we just held the prey by the scruff of it's neck and more or less "walked" it. Course you have to be quick to release the prey when the snake hits and starts to coil. Always seemed to work with our snakes