Question about buying BP's online (feeding related)

I would think that any good breeder would try giving a baby you wanted f/t ....esp if you put a deposit on it. I know I would. They just prob wouldn't guarantee that it will take f/t....or that it may take several attempts to get it to take f/t if you had to have it eating f/t. So, you may have to wait awhile to get your snake. Keep this in mind too, that shipping a snake is a lil stressful, and a f/t eater may have to be offered live or p/k to get it to feed right away.

Thank you for your replies!
Cissin- The weights you listed are very helpful, I will keep that in mind and check out the breeder you mentioned.
4theSNAKElady- I appreciate your response as well... I do have some stores in my town that sell live, I am just unsure on the quality and the price would be prohibitive if I had to use that as a routine option... But I could do so short term to transition a snake.

I think after doing more reading, and everyone's great advice, that I will still try to get a breeder to work with me and find an animal that will take f/t... But I will also make starting up a rat colony and breeding my own feeders a priority since I could run into snakes that wouldn't take f/t in the future and it would be nice to not have to worry about a snake needing live or pre-killed verses f/t.

Thanks again everyone for your great comments! I really appreciate you taking the time to share your expertise with me. :)

Artgecko

When it comes to buying new snakes online don't do what I did. I bought a snake from a breeder that only feeds live (which there is nothing wrong with that) but I feed frozen thawed. He never told me, and I didn't ask because I was stupid. But asked a lot of other questions that one just slipped my mind for some reason. So for the first couple weeks I was wondering why he was rejecting food all the freaking time, contacted the guy and now he tells me he's been feeding him live lol. So now I have to convert a snake from live to frozen thawed and it is not fun at all. I've been doing tons of reading on it to see what people have done, and most say the switch is easy for them but this little guy I have is fighting me on it. So just ask the breeder every kind of question you can possibly thing of. And yes 100% ask them to try and get them on frozen thawed for you. I really wish I would have.


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