My hunch is that they have a dual life stage (a different animal when young) The only prey taken by some voluntarily has been cricket frog and hatchling skink. They will eat each other so small snakes might work.



They key on movement first and foremost. Food offered too often will only be a cage mate. I find high heat will get um going too around 90F



I used a new approach on my Ptyas which I think will work on Coachwhip. Since they like frog I started scenting frog with pink mice. I fed them every two or three days whenever they passed a meal. I did this for two months and then quit feeding them for ten days. I then offered frog scented pink mice every 10 days. It took one month for 8 out of 20 to feed on pink mice.



I have been hatching coach whip for 11 or so years and all I can say is good luck as they are an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being most difficult snake to start feeding!
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