my bp will not take a white rat

[Dave763]

My pastels eat any color rat. I don't feed mice. Sometimes they get a black sometimes white, sometimes hooded (black and white), or tan or hairless or...well you get the idea.

[Boanerges]

My pastel male eats white rats every week Don't know about the female I just got from Adam though, I will find out this week. He said she was a strong feeder so I don't anticipate any problems with her eating white rats either.

[casperca]

I have a few pastels who are mouse eaters(color makes no difference) and one who will eat anything you put in front of her. I definately don't think the morph has anything to do with it.

[gu1do24]

well im currently feeding tie-dyed rats and my guys just love them. I take a white rat and get an egg coloring kit and dunk them. its fun for the snakes.

[kc261]

well im currently feeding tie-dyed rats and my guys just love them. I take a white rat and get an egg coloring kit and dunk them. its fun for the snakes.

LOL!

I've heard of snakes being picky about the color, or even sex of their meals. I have not personally experienced it. I have one corn and one BP who mostly refuse to eat f/t (each one has taken exactly one f/t meal), and one other BP who sometimes will strike & constrict its meal, but then never actually eat it. I thought I was noticing a pattern with that one that it would only eat smaller meals, but then one day I didn't have an appropriately small meal for it, so I figured may as well try something a little bigger, and it ate that just fine, so now I have no idea what is up with that snake other than just really picky.

Other than those 3, I've had a few that were a little slow to get started on a good eating routine when I got them, but the rest of my snakes don't seem to care about color, sex, f/t, live, etc.

[stormwulf133]

Do you think food coloring is in any way harmful to ball pythons? I would love to see some of you guys with picky eaters test this theory out.

[nova2door]

i have a pastel that only eats mice. he will take a white mouse in a couple seconds but he will not take a black or brown one for about 30 min.

[starmom]

My pastels eat rats and they eat rats of any color.

My axanthic will only eat white rats

[MUSTANGGTANDGSXR]

*****update****

i put a white mouse in the feeding tank and he took it within 15min. so maybe i didnt give him enough time before.

[JeffJ]

my BP has rejected 2 white fuzzies, he tends to like the white grey colored ones. I was told my the breeder i got it from that white might be troublesome. so i guess its true.