This probably doesn't help you at all but I wanted to share my experience on this.


A year ago I bought a hatcling JCP that was being fed live hopper mice. I fed it live hoppers for about 4-5 weeks before trying to convert it to (live) rat fuzzies. This has been and still was (up to 2 weeks ago) the only snake that I fed live, because I had heard so many horror stories of people who have had major headaches switching their carpets from mice to rats, that I figured I'd just take what I could get. I tried a p/k fuzzy rat a couple of times, but after that I just moved on. When I finally got it on rat fuzzies, and she started growing up, I switched from fuzzies to pups, then from pups to small rats. Still every week when I would feed her, I said to myself "these rats are getting bigger, one of these days somethings going to happen."

Well 2 weeks ago, it happened. I dropped it in, she struck, and didn't wrap far enough down the body to get the rat in such a position that its coils were out of the way of the rats mouth and it bit her. Enough to draw blood. Anyway, after freaking out, cancelling a date to take my daughter and her mom to dinner (which I'm still hearing about), and taking it to the store to have him looked at by the guy who hatched her out, it turned out that she was fine. No scar, not a scale out of place. I said that night that if she didn't eat p/k from then on, she wouldn't eat.

Last week I offered her a p/k rat and she took it after about 10 seconds of dangling it. Yesterday I fed p/k again, same thing. I feel/felt pretty stupid. Like I said, sorry for the lack of help, I just wanted to share. Since you don't have issues with live (me neither, really. no big issues at least), maybe if you wait it out, feed live and offer p/k every few weeks she might decide to take it one day? Other than that, my IJCP has always fed p/k with no problems.

Anyway,