Spider accepted first meal!

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Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany

Here are my views on both live and f/t, good and bad:

F/T:
Good:
-not a lot of money
-easy to store them
-the freezing process kills parasites

Bad:
-less nutritional- Do you have solid proof of this? Or just heresay?
-larger mice/rats cost more
-freezing process eliminates most of the nutrients.

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Originally Posted by demjor19

How large do you typically let your hatchlings get before switching them to f/t?

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It's not a question of size, once they know what food is, I start offering at end of tweezers- L, then Pk, then FT. as the get used to L & feed twice off tweezers, I move to Pk as so on. Young ones tend to be easiest to convert- them and moms after they lay eggs. I've gotten in older females who would switch for the world switch after a clutch.

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Originally Posted by demjor19

Thanks for the replys everyone. There is a small reptile show in the area this weekend...I may pick some frozen rodents up and give them shot.

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What state do you live in? if you don't mind me asking. There is one this weekend around here too.

I prefer live to frozen. Around here live is cheapest. But I tried the switch once. After a few failed feedings and putting way more time into than I could afford, I went back to live and she eats just fine. But whatever works for you...works for you :) I know a few different breeders that seem to prefer live because its less effort when you own a lot of snakes (not having to put time into defrosting, prescenting, or making sure the rat/mouse was hot enough etc)