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does any body have their blue beauty feeding on F/T or do you guys mostly feed live? i dont know what i should do with my new girl

Your Blue should take frozen/thawed without complaint. My juvenile Blues are more high strung at feed time than my Taiwans were at the same age, but they took frozen/thawed from their very first meal. I feed my Blues out of their enclosure, primarily because I can't keep an eye on both of them with the enclosure opened. They tend to be pretty high-strung so they'll tail-rattle and gape their mouths in defense - they even musk slightly - anyway, they will lunge and bite at the offered f/t fuzzy mouse a few times but always end up striking and then going into eating mode. They don't even constrict the food, they just start swallowing it. I always keep a second f/t fuzzy ready so I can get it in their mouth just as they're finishing the first.
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Matt Campbell
25 years herp keeping experience
Full-time zookeeper
Personal collection - 21 snakes (9 genera), 20 lizards (4 genera), 6 chelonians (2 genera)

alright cool, im probally gonna switch her over shes takin all her meals already live, so ill see how it goes, thanks for the input

hey matt whats ur blues tempermant like, i have a post on this forum about them im just curious cause i just got mine

The temprement of my Blues could be best described as nervous, twitchy, and aggressive - however I don't handle them. I do know someone else who has a single Blue that is probably about 2 or 3 years old and his is relatively mild-mannered. I just think they can be high-strung as babies like a lot of babies are but provided you handle them regularly [once they've really had a chance to settle in] they will become tractable adults.
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Matt Campbell
25 years herp keeping experience
Full-time zookeeper
Personal collection - 21 snakes (9 genera), 20 lizards (4 genera), 6 chelonians (2 genera)

yea i heard a lot about their attitudes so since i had her i hold her at laest once every day mostly twice a day, so im hoping she will be very docile when older