>>You know, in twenty some years of doing this I've never had a snake that steadfastly refused f/t food. Now I've got one, and I must say i lack the experience to fix it. I've tried a few things. Anyone have like an ancient Chinese secret or something?

I have a few live only feeders, and just have not worked with them much to switch them to f/t. Some just won't switch using this method, in my experience, but it has worked with a few.

First offer a stunned rodent.

If it takes the stunned prey, try freshly killed.

Feed f/k a couple times, then offer a f/k rodent - and after it eats it offer a f/t rodent.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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• Switching from live to frozen - tempest777, Wed Oct 27 16:43:12 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - BillMcgElaphe, Wed Oct 27 17:43:09 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - DMong, Wed Oct 27 22:22:42 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - tbrock, Wed Oct 27 22:04:18 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - tempest777, Thu Oct 28 15:04:33 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Oct 29 09:24:51 2010
• Oh, and one more question.. - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Oct 29 09:33:17 2010
• RE: Oh, and one more question.. - tempest777, Fri Oct 29 15:35:47 2010
• RE: Oh, and one more question.. - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Oct 29 23:24:00 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - Godfrey, Thu Oct 28 19:36:30 2010
• I agree Jim! - DMong, Thu Oct 28 23:30:42 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - draybar, Sat Oct 30 19:05:44 2010
• Thank you very much indeed! n/m - tempest777, Sun Oct 31 18:38:31 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - johnthebaptist, Thu Nov 4 20:04:45 2010