Solomon Island Ground Boa

This may be a bit long, please bear with me.

I picked up a Solomon Island ground boa at the Frederickburg VA show on the 11th.  This is supposed to be a captive bred neonate/juvenile (I am assuming this year's litter) that is feeding every 3-4 weeks on house geckos.  All of this is per the breeder from whom I purchased it.  The snake appears very healthy, no sign of mites or other parasites.  All in all it appears to be quite healthy.  I have it set up in a 40 gallon breeder tank complete with hides and a live plant plus 2 seperate water dishes (one in each end of the tank).  The ambient room temperature is 70-75 F with a warm spot in the tank reaching 85 F give or take a few degrees.  The humidity is kept between 50-70% (usually between 60-70%).  

As of the day I purchased him, I was told he was last fed a gecko approximately 3 weeks beforehand and should be ready to eat.  I have put the gecko in the cage with him and left it over the weekend, I have tried putting both into a small rubbermaid container in the tank and leaving them overnight, neither option has resulted in the snake eatting the gecko.  Are there any tricks that anyone knows of?  I've not handled the snake to allow it to acclimate to it's new environment (with the exception of last Thursday night placing it and the gecko into a tub together).  I would love to contact the breeder, but he didn't give me his number and I only know his first name (just cannot remember his last name).  Any advice would be extremely helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Dianne 'Raven' Johnson

Just an update:

I tracked the vendor I purchased the boa from and found out that it is actually an import (let's here if for ALL Captive Bred reptile shows! lol)   <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>   Anyway, the snake was kept in a much smaller container than what I have him set up in.  I've changed that and put two geckos in with him.  I guess we'll see what happens from here.

these guys have a tendency to be shy feeders, as well as going on fasting periods. Your setup sounds good, but I would try only one gecko in with him at a time...he might get stressed with 2 in there. The solomons have a low metabolism, but he should still be eating. Trying a small anole or frog might also work.

a friend of mine had 2 females that del. this year the 1 st one had 59 babys, he is a collecter and fed them small frogs, (cricket) i got a trio from him
but i dont catch cricket frogs, after about 3 weeks. i had an order of baby toads going out, so i put 3 in their cage. dont know if they tryed to eat them or not , but all 3 snakes were dead in15 min. if you dont have any luck in afew days contact me & i,ll try to get you some crict frogs from him
of the 59 babys all of them ate the cricket frogs, some are now on scented pinks
Gene

I've ordered some live pinkies/fuzzies from the local shop to try scenting them and then offering them to the snake.  They're due in next Tuesday.  He's not losing any body weight, so I'm not overly concerned ... yet.  I've also got access to some live frogs/froglets, so that will be the next option if he doesn't go for the mice.  As soon as I can get an appointment and cash, I'll be getting him checked by my vet as well.  I'll update ya'll as things progress.

Thanks,
Dianne