All of my ball pythons have always started off with hopper mice as their first meal. Recently I purchases a 25 lot of female CH balls, Since I only had 21 shoe boxes available I had to double up 4 of the boxes. I tried to feed frozen thawed as their first meal, I always try that in the hope that at least 1 will start off right away with frozen, so far it has never happened. I followed up with live hopper mice, and EVERY snake that was in it's own shoe box ate. NONE of the snakes that were doubled up ate. I've finally got them all in their own boxes now and the last time I fed I only had 5 refusals (these were ALL snakes that until recently had been doubled up) The trick is to get them eating regularily. Once you have them feeding on a schedule it's a lot easier to get them switched over to what YOU want them eating.

Mark


>>I was waiting for my order from Rodent Pro to come. These guys all shed about 4 days ago and I really wanted to get them fed for the first time. Not even one showed any interest whatsoever. They just crawled around like nothing edible was anywhere around. Guess I should try the live and then a f/t right after trick? I do not want live only feeders. I just remembered how much I hate getting babies to eat. Haven't done this since I had a litter of baby copperheads 3 years ago that didn't take their first meal until 4 months after they were born. Let me tell ya, that was fun.
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