I have a trick that I learned from Wayne (Infernalis). Go to the pet store and buy Reptamin...it's turtle food...it comes in little sticks. Now, Wayne makes a "garter goulash" for his babies...which includes diced up fish, diced up pinky, and reptamin. I just use the reptamin on worms and it usually works. Chop up some worms into little pieces and take a stick of reptamin and grind it into a powder. Mix the powder with the worms. All my snakes love reptamin. Once you get them eating, I would just use the reptamin once in a while though. I don't use it every feeding.