"It is a male suboc from 2009"

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You'll probably resolve it shortly...

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For what its worth....

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It's my feeling that SUBOCs are both scent and sight hunters, with emphasis on the latter.

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I have a female blond that would only eat live fuzzies in her first 1/4 year.

I kept her in a plastic Shoe box with good ventilation (about 8"X12", but small.

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For three months I couldn't get her to F/T. Drove me crazy.. Live Fuzzy = grab it; F/T fuzzy wiggled or not = nothing.

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She seemed frightened of the F/T in close quarters (and probably of my heavy handedness of wiggling the mouse, relative to a live one.)

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I moved her and her hide to a plastic container that had twice the floor area.

Gave her a week to settle in.

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I tried wiggling a warmed F/T Fuzzy in the aspen at as far away as I could in the larger container (about 14"X20". She came out of her very secure hide, stalked the thawed mouse and grabbed it immediately from the tongs.

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She's now in her third year, in a 3' X 2" cage, and does the same when a F/T adult mouse is wiggled in the aspen: she comes from across the cage, stalks it, then grabs it.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

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