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Live vs. F/T

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  • 09-30-2011, 06:56 PM
    Ogre
    Re: Live vs. F/T
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by benwallage9 View Post
    Ya it happens she had just lost the instinct to coil. My corn does it sometimes along with my pin. It like they know its already dead so why bother coiling lol. Just don't try live with her, it could turn out nasty

    yeah thats what I thought, just wanted to make sure and if i ever do try live i will def knock the sucker out. but its all f/t from here on out.
  • 09-30-2011, 09:48 PM
    snake lab
    Re: Live vs. F/T
    There is no difference at all in the health of your animal feeding frozen or live. Yes there are plenty of horror stories about rat bites but those cases are because people dont pay attention. A rat is not going to go right in and attack a snake. If its kept in there too long then thats when problems happen. If your worried about it then thump the rodent first. Frozen is convienant if you only have a few animals. I dont have the time to defrost a ton of rodents every week to feed my collection so i breed my own rats so live is the way to go for me. Now i do take percautions when im feeding jumbo rats to my huge girls but i dont think anyone wants to hear those percautions lol
  • 09-30-2011, 09:53 PM
    rabernet
    Re: Live vs. F/T
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by benwallage9 View Post
    Ya it happens she had just lost the instinct to coil. My corn does it sometimes along with my pin. It like they know its already dead so why bother coiling lol. Just don't try live with her, it could turn out nasty

    They don't lose their instinct to coil. If presented with life prey, they would coil. One of my snakes was a rescue fed f/t by its previous owner. The first live meal with me it hit hard, swift and accurate.
  • 10-01-2011, 01:49 AM
    onedroplet
    All my bp's were fed live before i bought them...got them let settle for a week and they had no problem with f/t. Something I read somewhere is that if you leave live in the enclosure put food for it in the enclosure they get hungry rather quickly and although rare (so i've been told) it could get so hungry that it nibbles on your bp. Always supervise with live.
  • 10-01-2011, 02:07 AM
    Maixx
    I lost a large Red tailed Boa to a large rat, it tried to swallow the rat while it was still alive and had her throat ripped out. That's not a major concern with bp's, but some types of snakes will eat their prey while its still alive.
  • 10-01-2011, 03:28 AM
    MidSouthMorphs
    Re: Live vs. F/T
    All of mine take F/T. Never had a problem so far.
  • 10-01-2011, 01:59 PM
    fluffpuffgerbil
    I'm feeding live.
    I haven't tried F/T yet just because it seems like more work to go drive out 30 mins +/- to the only petco with nice variety in their F/T mice... I'd need adults and don't really want to buy 6 FT mice for $12(though I'm already paying $2.15 a mouse live...)
    Plus it just seems easier to go out to the petstore about 20 minutes away on feeding day, pick up a live mouse, and go home and feed. I always supervise. It doesn't take long, but I have to, and I have only one snake. When I feed her, I hold the mouse by the base of the tail with my tongs and dangle it near Kallista and she normally gets a good strike. The one I fed her yesterday she didn't quite get it's head and it was trying to bite her side I think so I put my thick wooden skewer in it's mouth and I could feel it biting that. She killed it and it took her forever to eat it, but it was a little big. But the others I have fed her seem too small(she looks like she wants more. After this one she didn't. XD)

    But I have to supervise the whole feeding anyway after she kills it since I take out her hides and water dish and move the tub off the shelf on the desk she's on so I can watch better.
    And so afterwards I have to put everything back in and put her tub back up.

    It sounds like a lot of work, but it doesn't take much more than 10 minutes and it works for me.
    There's no way I'm not supervising her feeding time. Plus, I think it's cool to watch them eat. :3
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