One thing I noticed about him is that he will refuse it if it isn't hot enough. To heat up the pinkies I usually put em in a ziplock, get the tap running until it's piping hot, (hot enough that you wouldn't feel comfortable running your hand under it for more than a second) and fill up the ziplock about 1/3-1/2 the way. While it's sitting in the bag, I pull him out of his cage and put him in his feeding bin. Sealing the bag keeps the heat in longer, and by the time he's ready the pinky has been in the hot water for about 1 minute. I just wiggle it in front of him with the feeder tongs and he goes "buck wild". If the pinky is just a few degrees cooler than directly from the piping hot water... he'll refuse until I heat it up properly. Also, when I put the pinky in the bag, it's frozen at that point. So keeping it in for 1 minute is enough for the defrost and to heat it up perfectly. Perhaps that might work for ya. Then again, maybe it's easier for me because the person who bought it probably put in the work to get him eating pinkies, prior to my purchase...

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