Of different methods for switching to, or introducing frozen foods to your captives. None are fool proof, every snake is an individual. Here are a few that have worked for me. Of course before offering the food, thaw it. After thawing, I like to heat it with warm water, they tend to like warm prey items better than cold. Offering the food on tongs usually works best. Try not to disturb the snake too much. This is very important with shy/finicky eaters. I like to feed at night, this is when they are most active. Sometimes just dropping the food item in the enclosure is enough....leave it in there over night. If that doesn't work you can try wiggling it front of the snake. Some snakes respond to "teasing" where you sort of tickle the snakes tail, neck, or head with the prey item. This method will usually ellicit a strike out of the snake, and hopefully a wrap. If not, keep at it, they'll usually get so fed up with the teasing they'll try to KILL whatever is bugging them. And then more often then not they will eat it. But like I said, there are tons of ways to try. You have to figure out which is best for you and your particular snake. Hope this helps, and good luck.

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• Nicaraguans boas feeding question - chicagopsych, Sat Jul 26 11:52:13 2003
• RE: Nicaraguans boas feeding question - joesreptilez, Sat Jul 26 13:18:54 2003
• There are literally dozens, if not hundreds..... - McNasty78, Sat Jul 26 17:40:25 2003
• going to have to agree and disagree with something you said... - Jonathan_Brady, Sat Jul 26 18:00:10 2003