How many of you pre scent when feeding

I live in a one room space.

13 snakes, 16 breeder rats and around 30 pups at all times.

The pythons are about ten feet from the breeder rats. But when I bring the feeder tub next to the rack, suddenly all heads are popping out looking. Just moving the tub that distance makes them that much more attentive.

I also, do as the other poster noted, and I feed my most aggressive feeders first. Usually as soon as I pull the tub up. I let them strike and swallow, then I feed the less aggressive feeders.

The colubrids are on the other end of the space. They are so attentive to feeding day, that I swear they hear the blowdryer. They are my only FT feeders and they are alert while the prey is defrosting, but as I walk up to the enclosure with the FT warmed prey they are there to meet me at the gate.

Bruce

I only have the one ball that I bought from NERD and I still prescent when feeding. I can get him to eat without prescenting but I usually need to make the rat (FT) do the zombie dance for a few minutes to get a strike. When I thaw the rat out on top of his enclosure the entire day of feeding I barely get the doors of his cage open before he's locked on the rat.

In short I guess what i'm saying is that I get a much stronger feeding responce when I prescent. It's kind of like me on Thanksgiving smelling the turkey cooking all day, by the time it's time to eat my stomach's in knots.

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Originally Posted by BostonMacK

It's kind of like me on Thanksgiving smelling the turkey cooking all day, by the time it's time to eat my stomach's in knots.

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Good job putting it into terms we can relate too. lol

I do!

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I have never had to present.

I know a lot of people do and I'm sure it works great for them. I find it to be over rated though.