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Hi. I have a green burmese python who is about 8 months old. I am having a hard time switching him over to frozen/thawed and would like to know simply if I keep refusing him food long enough if eventually he will take the thawed food. I have been trying once a week to give him frozen food but after a month of refusal I caved and gave him some three live rats which he gobbled up quickly. Should I just keep refusing to give him live food until he takes the thawed. I have even tried giving him the thawed after he eats a live and is in " feeding mode" but with no results. Am I stuck with a "live eater" only? Thanks for any help or info.

Did'nt you just post recently that your green burm started pounding f/t rabbits?

Are you stuck with a live eater? Most likly not. You have a few options.

1) Try giving him/her pre killed. I know its cruel but in the long run will save you. If do not know how to do that humainly let me or anyone in here know. Try this for a couple weeks and then you can switch. But you have to warm your rats up. Do not just thaw them. Put them in a bag in luke warm water, and then wiggle it in front of him/her.

2) Try warming it in a bag and then wiggle it or just leave it in there but make it dark and come back in a few hours.

This is how I got mine to eat FT, and she was very picky.
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0.2 Rotts
1.0 Super Tiger
0.1 Green Burm
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Red Tail
0.1 Blood Python
1.0 Green Ananconda

Yes. One of my green burms has recently been switched to rabbits. I have three. Two greens, and an albino green. The two greens came from the same clutch and they have both been pretty picky when it comes to feeding thawed, however the previous one IS eating 1.5 pd rabbits now. Do you have a point to your comment?

My pint would be to follow the instructions there.
I highly doubt if you have a live only eater. Most of my burms are garbage cans, they'll eat anything...only the one that prefers prey microwaved is a problem feeder.
Do not give up...do not feed p/k or live if you are trying to covert to f/t.
You'll only go backwards.
Hunger is a great motivator. After a few weeks, and they have'nt eaten is not a reason to panic.
They can go a couple of months, or more without eating.
Eventually when they're hungry, they will strike at frozen thawed prey dangling in front of them. Again, be consistent, don't try f/t one week, then live the next.
Stick to the goal of getting your burm on f/t.
Once he takes it, he'll never miss a meal again.