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Switching from live to F/T

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Posted by: LN2 at Wed Feb 6 15:11:11 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LN2 ]  
   

Greetings
I'm a new Ball python owner, though I have admired them for a long time. A week ago I acquired my first, a 7 month old normal female who's been feeding on live adult mice. I've been trying to switch over to f/t with not much luck. First I placed it on a dish and left it overnight, and it was ignored. The second time I tried leaving one all day (about 7 hours) and it was also ignored.

According to the breeder (who feeds only live) she last ate on 1/29, and isn't about to shed... Is it possible I need to wait a bit longer for her to get acclimated? Humidity is 40%, temps are 90/80.

My other snake is a male Mexican Black King who has the legendary MBK feeding response. Of course, a vastly different animal.

Any tips are appreciated!

   

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