After three meals, I am puzzled

[Serpico]

Well, I am not in the position to question their real order and species, all I know is that I bought them from an Eastern Europe, who said they were born in captivity; I also know for sure that while the male tasted the salmon once, and then refused to eat anything else, salmon included, the female ate salmon, trout, aterina boyeri, one nightcrawler, pieces of pinky, and my thumb.
Regarding behaviour, they are now in hiding ,but during the day they are actively roaming their viv, and they do not usually run away and hide when they see someone approaching.
Anything else, I simply ignore it...

[Bart]

Well, probably they were taught to eat other stuff. It's hard but not impossible. As for born in captivity - if so, the female probably was gravid before she was caught. According to my information, ribbons very rarely if ever are breed in captivity.
Again, I strongly suggest that you shouldn't move them from their tank if you're planning to feed them. Ribbons are more timid and nervous than garters. And they really preffer to eat from the water rather the tongs or the ground. And giving them live fish is the best bet to feed them. My Kleo is taught to eat scented pinks, but it has to be scent of live fish she ate previously. It took me a long time to teach her this, not to mention eating from the tongs.
Just try with guppies. I can assure you, that picky male will eat them like crazy. I wish you luck!

[Serpico]

I am still not sure about their species, BUT I would like to thank Bart, because today I bought two live guppies at one pet shop, I then separated male and female (using the built in feature of my terrarium), and I plunged the two tiny guppies into the water container on the male section.

He reacted at once, diving into the water, opening his mouth and trying like crazy to catch the fish. And since I saw him having problems catching them, I took one aterina (small fish a bit bigger than guppies, frozen), plunged into the water tank, and of course he managed to catch the dead fish.

I left him in peace, alone, with three other frozen fish on the water tank rim, and the two guppies swimming... After some time, one of the frozen fish was gone. Now, one and half hour later, the guppies and the remaining frozen fish are there, and the snake is sleeping onto his favourite branch....

I am happy because he finally ate, and also because he ate the frozen fish, and not toe live and possibly parasitized one. So Bart was possibly very right, when he said that it was a matter of character. I always had thamnophis who were curious, inquisitive, ready to eat and ready to go investigate. The female got another frozen fish from my hand, now when I open the cage, she comes toward my hand and slides gracefully over it if she does not smell anything interesting...
If she does, she eats it..
Apparently, the male is another thing. I am planning to shoot pictures of the two, and post them here, so maybe someone may accurately ident them. Any particular detail I have to aim at?

Thanks to Bart again, and to all friends!

Pg

[RedSidedSPR]

That's awesome that he eat!

[guidofatherof5]

Good job to both you and Bart. Glad to hear the male is finally eating.
Just to clarify something. You are feeding frozen, then thawed fish?

[Serpico]

All in all, he ate TWO small fish, frozen and of course, thawed. He CHASED the guppies, failed, ate the dead fish.
Weird, uh?
The female, at the same time, takes fish from my bare hand.
Is it possible that I have two different animals? Or the difference in behaviour can be so big?

[RedSidedSPR]

Every snake is different.