New Convert!

[Reinz15]

Can I Have an AMEN!!

Pandora switched to F/T!

She never knew the difference.



My Ball Python refused, but no surprise. She's 12 yrs old and even refuses fresh kill. But I left the F/T in with her anyway just in case.

[Noelle7206]

Re: New Convert!

Very typical...both for a boa not to care and for a BP to be fussy. AMEN! Good going! (don't give up on the BP)

[Joba1972]

Re: New Convert!

All right! Good job.

[Morrisr]

Re: New Convert!

Amen!!! My boa does great with f/t, but my bp that has been on f/t for the first 15 months of her life started to refuse and for 2 months now will only eat live! Fussy bp and a boa that is a garbage disposal!!!

[bebowebb]

Re: New Convert!

Congrats!

Glad to hear the conversion went well.

Don't stress about the BP. A lot of times when you leave a F/T or pre-killed prey item in overnight, it will be gone by morning.

[Reinz15]

Re: New Convert!

Thanks for the support everyone!

The rat was untouched in the BP's tank in the early next morning. So I gently reheated it with a heat gun and checked the temp with the temp gun and the Boa gladly took it.

[GoingPostal]

Re: New Convert!

Always nice to get everyone eating f/t. I'm working to switch over my bp too, always been on live mice, would like him on f/t rats like everyone else, I did get him to take and eat a ft mouse last week so that's some progress.

[zamora]

Re: New Convert!

So I gently reheated it with a heat gun and checked the temp with the temp gun and the Boa gladly took it.

I wouldn't do that, by the time you got to the mouse/rat, bacteria had already started growing on it. Hopefully you are lucky and your boa won't regurge. Once you leave a prey item in overnight, you must discard it the next day.

[Pandorasdad]

Re: New Convert!

Once you leave a prey item in overnight, you must discard it the next day.

Yup. I won't feed anything that's been un-frozen for that long. I know snakes have strong guts, but I'd rather not test that.

[weird_science04]

Re: New Convert!

Congrats! Boa's are pretty easy with that conversion but it always makes things easier when you know they will take the f/t.

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