Officialy switched Over

Plissken is finally officialy switched over to rats, last night he ate his first unscented rat like a champ. A method I used to enhance his response was to heat the rats head in particular with a hair dryer. After dangling his rat for a bit I decided to warm it up since it had cooled a little from me playing rat puppet. I held a hair dryer over the rats head for a minute or two and this realy helped I feel, in getting a nice strike within seconds. The short tail was out looking for food even before it was his turn ( greedy!)

Congrats on convert, I successfully switched my hubbies kingsnake to f/t over the weekend!! :D

Its great when they eat. I am waiting to switch my little BP Coco to hoppers maybe next feeding.

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Congrats on convert, I successfully switched my hubbies kingsnake to f/t over the weekend!!

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Now that is an acomplishment from live to F/T way to go! :P

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Its great when they eat. I am waiting to switch my little BP Coco to hoppers maybe next feeding.

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Good deal Gozetec, keep em toasty warm and youll do great Im sure. :D

Not much of one because I think the little guy would eat anything, lol.

Congrats, Paul. :) Now Plissken will grow like a champ for ya.

I'm going to try a f/t tonight. I've got some out of town trips coming up this summer, and I am going to be having people who don't normally care for snakes look after Amber (with strict instructions from me of course). I think that being able to feed f/t is best because I wouldn't ask someone to go buy a live mouse, prekill, then offer to the snake in a seperate enclosure. With frozen thawed, all that would be needed is to thaw, warm, and make the mouse dance in front of a hide.

Any last words of advice before I try switching Amber tonight?

If Amber is already eating pre-killed and you get the temp right, you'll probably have an uneventful switch. I would suggest using a thick (like freezer-style) plastic bag to do the thawing in to keep the rodent dry and help retain the "yummy" scent, and remember that normal body temp for mice and rats is ~98.6, so you should (in most cases) be aiming for 98.6-100F for the warmed temp. Good luck!

don't heat em' up too much though... it's sick.

thanks wizill and marla, I'll give an update later tonight on how it goes!

(sorry for hijacking the thread beaglegod)