Gerbil in the same ROOM with my BP Robin?

I'm planning to raise a gerbil. I also planned on keeping it on my room but is Robin going to smell the gerbil and act weird?
I've also read from the internet that snakes love gerbil and once they eat them, they can't stop. Will the gerbil scent make him a little weird?
I don't want Robin to be anymore picky than she is right now.. Any help would be great thanks~

Aslong as they are across the room there shouldnt be an issue if kept clean, my G/F keeps her chinchillas in same room and have never had a problem

It will be fine. We almost always have feeder rodents in the snake room, and it is no problem.

I have a question sort of similar to this, if I feed my big female ball python a gerbil of appropriate size, does anyone think she might become too accustomed to that prey item? Thus only wanting gerbils? Lol, I have a lot of frozen gerbils but I am afraid to feed them over my small rats because they are harder to obtain in my area unless I use online resources. My local rat breeder stopped breeding gerbils and gave me some of the last of his stock, but I don't want her to completely switch her diet. I am thinking I shouldn't. But I figured I would ask regardless.

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Originally Posted by Zombree

I have a question sort of similar to this, if I feed my big female ball python a gerbil of appropriate size, does anyone think she might become too accustomed to that prey item? Thus only wanting gerbils? Lol, I have a lot of frozen gerbils but I am afraid to feed them over my small rats because they are harder to obtain in my area unless I use online resources. My local rat breeder stopped breeding gerbils and gave me some of the last of his stock, but I don't want her to completely switch her diet. I am thinking I shouldn't. But I figured I would ask regardless.

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I've never tried, but I have always been told that hamsters and gerbils are very addicting and hard to swap back to rats. IMO if your snake is eating rats I would try to stick with them.

I wouldn't risk it. As they are higher fat and more fur. Less overall nutrition. Same with ASFS my one girl took 5-6 months to get off them back to rats


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Hm, okay. Thanks for the information! I wish I didn't have so many frozen gerbils in my freezer now, but oh well. Not sure what I can do with them, haha

Throw em out, Keep them for Extreme circumstance's where your snakes will need food in the next "year" after a year there nutrition value goes down.

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Originally Posted by 18parkky

I'm planning to raise a gerbil. I also planned on keeping it on my room but is Robin going to smell the gerbil and act weird?
I've also read from the internet that snakes love gerbil and once they eat them, they can't stop. Will the gerbil scent make him a little weird?
I don't want Robin to be anymore picky than she is right now.. Any help would be great thanks~

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I keep my snakes in the same room with my gerbils, mice, rats and hamster. Everyone is fine.

Don't get just one gerbil please... They are social creatures and need the company of another gerbil. Lone gerbils usually become extremely skittish, depressed and aggressive. If you want just one of a rodent, then get a Syrian hamster.

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I have a question sort of similar to this, if I feed my big female ball python a gerbil of appropriate size, does anyone think she might become too accustomed to that prey item? Thus only wanting gerbils? Lol, I have a lot of frozen gerbils but I am afraid to feed them over my small rats because they are harder to obtain in my area unless I use online resources. My local rat breeder stopped breeding gerbils and gave me some of the last of his stock, but I don't want her to completely switch her diet. I am thinking I shouldn't. But I figured I would ask regardless.

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Originally Posted by Morris Reese

I've never tried, but I have always been told that hamsters and gerbils are very addicting and hard to swap back to rats. IMO if your snake is eating rats I would try to stick with them.

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I can attest to the truth of this.

After eating hamsters and gerbils I have a hard time swapping back to rats.

Gere Farms Gerbils are the best. Pricey, but worth it.