Re: Getting the Ball Rolling
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CORBIN911
Just specifically ask him for a Frozen eater, some breeders do have those, And reason they feed live, is its easier overall on them, and upper weights they switch to Pre killed i believe, bcz they have there own rat colony's. I do not understand what you mean tho you can only get frozen mice pinkies and only live "Xx" im sure if you ask to order them youll be able to get some
I'm sorry if I did not explain clearly, I am new at this. The only local place that sells feeders is petco. We called twice and the first time we called they said they only sell adult frozen feeders. I found this rather odd as they do sell baby snakes who would not be able to eat adult feeders yet, so I called back and asked for the most knowledgeable person they had on snakes. They told me and I am quoting as directly as I can. "For feeders the only things they sell are frozen mice pinkies and frozen adult mice and rats. They will not order in young live rats or mice. For live the only thing they have is their adult pet mice and rats."
Re: Getting the Ball Rolling
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Originally Posted by
CORBIN911
Just specifically ask him for a Frozen eater, some breeders do have those, And reason they feed live, is its easier overall on them, and upper weights they switch to Pre killed i believe, bcz they have there own rat colony's. I do not understand what you mean tho you can only get frozen mice pinkies and only live "Xx" im sure if you ask to order them youll be able to get some, Aswell there are many Frozen rat places that deliver to your door! So you can feed frozen its entire life. Remember a frozen rat can hold its nutrition for over a year, And buying from them will be much cheaper then a pet store.... you could potentially plan ahead, and assume you can put on close to 50-100g month.. being 4 feeds a month. With someone like that you may also be able to ask if he can prepare it on F/T a local breeder does that for his customers who do payment plans. If they intend to feed F/T he "trains" them persay to do this, Now again this is different then a GIANT breeder like J.K but its worth a shot.
3 Months of rat pups=12 pups
3 months of rat weanlings=12 weanlings
X amount of Small rats = I feed all my males small this is when they stop being fed bigger, as they dont need to become HUGE like the females,
To make it simple you could do
20 pups
20 weanlings
10 Small
(50+ rats give nice deals and free packaging here)
You could rougly pick that up for close to 55+/-$+shipping so roughly 75$ tax's in
Thats 75$ that will feed your snake for 8+months! (assuming he doesnt hunger strike around 400-700g)
Yup, we have found a few sites that sell frozen feeders and I am considering that. My confusion was however that it seems from what I read hear it is easier to go from frozen to live then the other way around and all breeders seem to be feeding live. So how hard will it be to get a baby that has been eating live to go to frozen. I believe one reply here said not hard. Still a bit bummed because I wanted to feed live.
Re: Getting the Ball Rolling
Its not ALWAYS under our control! some snakes take some dont, And feeding live trust me will loose is novelty i enjoyed watching it twice, for my very first snake, after i was like meh heres a frozen your safe, im safe, and frozen are cheaper! You could also contact small breeders with rats to meet you 50/50 and you could buy a few live at a time if you choose to feed live! or as you said breed your own, just set up 2 tanks 1 with males/1 females and a nursing tank. If you also choose that route!
