Try F/T mice. Once the snake figures out they are dead, it may start eating again. Try putting the snake in a seperate container with the F/T mouse and placing the container in a quiet room in your house. Leave the snake alone for a couple of hours and see if it will eat. You may even have to leave it overnight. This way there are no distractions and the food item is right there with the snake. This might do the trick for you. Can I ask why you feed your snake live mice? A mouse can inflict a pretty nasty bite on a snake, and this bite can become infected and cause some bad problems, including death.
Dont take this as a flame, as it is not, I just cant understand why people continue to feed live prey to their snakes, when this is not such a good idea.
Argueably the snake eats live prey out in the wild, as this is the way a snake feeds. But if you catch any snake in the wild, it will most likely have small scars on it from encounters with prey items.
I always feed F/T (with the exception of pinkies when I buy newborns at the local pet shop).
F/T are all around best because buying F/T in bulk is way cheaper than live, and you dont have to worry about the mouse inflicting nasty bites.
Dont take this the wrong way, I am just trying to offer some advice that IMHO is the best for your snake.
Brian
:My snake is a Ball Python.
:I let my friend (that has seen me feed my snake plenty of times) feed my snake saturday while I went to pick up my girlfriend. Normaly I hold the LIVE mouse by its tail in front of my snake and within seconds my snake has gotten ahold of the mouse and is doing its thing. My friend thought it would be cool to let the mouse run around with the snake in its feeding box and let the snake catch it on its own.(BAD PLAN) any way the mouse ended up scaring the snake now the snake will not eat. I let it snake sit for a couple of days and tried again. It appears to make defencive strikes at the mouse but never wraps around it and constrits. I also put the mouse and snake together in the feeding box and covered for about an hour then the snake was so upset it bit me until i got it in my hands and it relized it was safe. I don't know what to do. (Note: My snake is a VERY good eater and I am 100% sure its problem is because of the way my friend tried to feed it. He said the mouse ran across it.)
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