Frozen ASF's

So my piebald Diesel will eat anything you throw at him, he's such a good boy. I think he'd eat a cherry tomato if I put one in his cage. But I recently acquiring a princess who hasn't taken any mice or rats black or white not even scented with gerbil bedding. I even did the zombie dance to MJ's Thriller for her. Grr!

She's going to the vet today for a check up...

Anywho my question is are frozen ASF's just as hard for a bp to resist as live or feshly killed ASF's?

Thanks for your input. :rat:

Sometimes it's just a waiting game.

I think you just have to wait a while longer until they eat.

I have a 500g Male pastel that wont eat, I have live ASFs and he wont touch them. He is eating ONE mice almost every 2 weeks... I blame breeding season. :(

Can you find frozen ASF's?? I looked on the rodentpro website and they dont have them..

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Originally Posted by ScubaDiver007

Can you find frozen ASF's?? I looked on the rodentpro website and they dont have them..

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Yep Google frozen ASF's and bunch of places will pop up. They run about $30.00 for 20 medium ASF's with free shipping over $100.00.

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Originally Posted by Danounet

I think you just have to wait a while longer until they eat.

I have a 500g Male pastel that wont eat, I have live ASFs and he wont touch them. He is eating ONE mice almost every 2 weeks... I blame breeding season. :(

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That sux! Live ASF's scare the you know what out of me. Demon spawn.

Actualy I think they are cute little buggers, none of the ones I have bite, Well havent bite me yet...

frozen works just as well on my one asf eater. to be honest i can dangle a rat for hours in front of her but if i bust out a asf, she takes it within a sec.... frozen or pre killed, or live

Taylor,
would you post a link, please?

I have 1 snake that won't eat anything but ASF's so I figured I would start a colony or 2 (it sure looked like a good idea on paper). They aren't worth the bother IMO.

Has anyone compared rats & ASF's when it comes to food consumed vs. weight of rats produced ??

With my small amount of experience, they just aren't worth it.

ASFs take a lot longer to mature to a small or medium size rat but you never have to worry about them outgrowing your ball python. So if you over produce your asfs they can sit for months and you can still feed them unlike regular rats.

plus sofar the habits of he parent killnig the litters off has been a lot lower with the asf than rats. I also know i can let the bedding sit 2+ weeks with out changing for asf and I done the rats 4 times in a week. I need ot develope a crazy large asf colony with the 23 snakeI got cause they go nuts and eat them faster than I can produce them. sadly the rats are not producing either.. I hopnig with the northeastern we got my het pieds get grooving so I cna have eggs lol..

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Originally Posted by Danounet

Actualy I think they are cute little buggers, none of the ones I have bite, Well havent bite me yet...

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These ones I picked up today are really cool. I have one albino male and the other two (one female and one male) are "normals". I think they are for sure cuter than mice or regular rats and I have heard they are way less stinkier. I also have heard that they can be mean. I hope I don't find out! :D