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I have not, but I don't have any snakes that are fussy specifically about prey temps. For a BP with any size to it, I would (and I do)...

IIRC garter snakes will eat carrion. I'm not surprised that a king or rat snake would as they're garbage disposals. In the case with the glue...

Interesting video -- thanks for the link. Personally, I would have suspected that the snake simply got stuck in the trap without the mice playing a...

In the Complete Children's Python, the authors describe instances of Children's, Pygmy and Stimson's pythons feeding on roadkill. The most...

Thats how I thaw out the frozen rodents .. Have you tried the hairdryer method for actually feeding , incidentally ?? Sent from my iPhone...

Interesting. I hate to abandon coconut fiber when I have quite a large supply on hand, but if others concur it's risky I'll switch. I'll start...

I would very strongly recommend against coco fiber. The fact that it is small bits seems, anecdotally, not to matter regarding a blockage risk. ...

Yeah, it's fine stuff, no chips. I suppose it wouldn't be hard for me to start putting the rats in ziplock bags for thawing, I just didn't want to...

Just to clarify on the coco fiber, you mean fine like the dirt? That's usually not too big of a worry since it is such small bits. Still nice to try...

This month has been a wild rollercoaster for me iRL so I missed this post. Thank you for all the work you put in Bogertophis! Now you get to kick...

Coconut fiber, rat is wet. Definitely a fair bit of it sticks to the rat. I hadn't been drying the rat because it was easier and neater not to do so,...

What is the substrate? Is the rat wet? Making sure those two issues are not a problem would probably minimize the substrate ingestion risk.

Snakes do weird things sometimes. I try not to draw conclusions from a single instance. Keep an eye on it. If it repeats, then consider doing...