Do you Prefer Live or Frozen?

live rats all day and tomorrow too :)
No shriveled peanut snacks here, well except one female that won't take rats, and being pretty much irreplaceable means I feed her what she will eat, mice(s) :P

my feeling, feed whatever is easier for you

I'm feeding frozen/thawed, bought from a local reptile store. I prefer f/t because it is easier for me in that I don't have to go to the pet store every week, and I don't have any desire to breed my own right now. I also like buying them already killed so I don't have to do it (I could if I had to, but I don't like to if I can avoid it). I prefer dead prey over live prey because I think it's more humane to the prey (if killed properly in the first place, even though the snakes can be pretty efficient at their job) and safer for the snake (though it may not happen often, the potential risk of rodent injury to snake just isn't worth taking the chance, to me). My rosy boas took f/t from their first meal, and the ball pythons I just got were taking dead prey too, so works for me!

I feed both. One of my ball pythons is picky and will only take live. The rest of mine will eat whatever. I breed my own rats though because it's cheaper, and I don't have to worry about getting to the pet store if i'm out of frozen. I'd only suggest that for large collections though, otherwise you'll have a ton of rats you don't know what to do with. Lol

where do you all suggest to go to buy live?

Live, I trade snakes for rat credit with another breeder.

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And to those who feed f/t and say live can be dangerous. There are precautions to take to feed live responsibly. (i.e. appropriately sized prey, no adults, kept properly fed/watered, kept with snake for a limited time, etc etc,). F/T can become equally dangerous if done improperly too. Pros and Cons to both....

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Originally Posted by MrBrute

where do you all suggest to go to buy live?

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Find a local breeder or find a reptile shop.

You can find a feeder breeders on Craigslist usually.

I feed frozen to all my animals except for a couple I'm trying to convert to frozen thawed. Not because I think feeding live is gross, or dangerous for the animal. The reason I don't feed live is it's less convenient for twelve snakes (I don't want to start a breeding colony) . Once I tried feeding live to my snakes that would stubbornly only eat live food, so I bought three hopper mice. They gave me fuzzies by mistake. I also ordered a live adult mouse for my pastel. They were in paper "chinese takeout" boxes. I left them in their overnight and when I woke up in he morning the boxes were CHEWED though (I should have known that would happen!!) The adult mouse was in the with babies but one was missing. I saw mouse organs littering the shavings and ya, that's what happened to third mouse. Not pretty.

Frozen/thawed here. I like the convenience. I breed mice and order rats from Layne Labs -- their rodents are very clean and don't smell when thawed.

F/T is really pretty easy. Even new baby balls will start on warmed frozen.

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