where should the feeder mice be kept?

Anywhere where you can't smell them.

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Originally Posted by FatBoy

I'm going to play "devil's advocate" here. Keep in mind, I have never kept snakes & prey in the same room, only expressing an opinion. I would think that in the beginning it would promote a feeding response, just like pre-scenting your room (I am a big fan of pre-scenting). Then after a while seems to me the snakes would get used to the smell and it would lessen the feeding response when offered. There can be no way to pre-scent your room when the prey is always in there. I am glad people have had success doing this but I would be curious to see how many refusals they get. I feed approximately 100 snakes every week, I pre-scent my room for 20 minutes before offering and I normally get 95+% of my snakes eating. JMO :)

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Well, four isn't nearly as many as 100 and I bought my first just over a year ago, but outside of a few shed refusals, during the time that I've had mice in the same room I haven't had any refusals. My spider refused for a month or two right after I got him, but that was before I kept mice. That does sound like it could happen though if you had a particularly picky snake.

i keep mine in same room no problems either but if it was a choice i would have a shed outside all lined out with asf rats and mice but im broke for now