ASF's and "Imprinting"

So im curious how many people here use the ASF's as a general food source for there snakes and the snake still takes regular mice and rats?

We've got a couple that take both, a couple that only take asf, and a couple that won't even look at them.

Thanks. Im really just curious if the imprinting thing is a huge worry or not. My snakes take either mice or rats right now. Ill be breeding normal rats here soon but my soft furs just had babies and would like to feed some off when they get of size. 2 of my babies and my big male takes mice and rats, frozen or live with no issue so im curious if an asf here and there would really curve there appetite.

I feed a mix of prekilled soft furs, prekilled mice (mainly for the smaller snakes), and FT rats. No issues with anyone getting fussy. They'll just about all eat anything I dangle in there as long as it's warm enough.

I've even used them exclusively to get problem eaters chugging along, then had no trouble getting them to take other items.

I think there may be a few animals out there that might show some preference, but for the most part it's just not true. Not that I've experienced.

Most of mine are disposal, will take anything.

Thanks everyone

I switch between Asf's and dumbo rats all the time depending on what i have. I breed both of them. The Ball pythons dont mind and neither do the red tailed boas.

Just goes to show you that the people who claim imprinting are the ones who dont have soft furs and are jealous. Haha.

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Originally Posted by SnakeKB

Just goes to show you that the people who claim imprinting are the ones who dont have soft furs and are jealous. Haha.

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Haha exactly! Mine pound on ASF's.

I sold a little too many a couple months ago so I had to go pick up some mice and regular rats and they took them without any hesitation.

Im gonna keep on breeding them and using them as food. I like how the breeding colony can stay together at all times and just seperates the weaned ones. Just seems like less work than regular rats to me.

and they don't smell nowhere near as bad as rats or mice do :)

I have 15 ball pythons and only one is an ASF only snake. The one came to me that way and the other 14 are eating whatever I have at the time. I breed ASF's and Rats.

Its great how the Soft Furs dont have much of a smell. I have my Hamster and Soft Fur containers right next to each other and its always the Hamster container that smells. Next week my baby soft furs will be big enough to feed my baby snakes so hopefully they eat them up.

They should eat them like its dessert. I feed rats to most of my snakes but we have a few that will pound the asf's more than rats so that is what they get. I eventually will have all of the snakes on rats and the asf's will just be for picky eaters only.

I have fed my 09 babies ASFs up until 600 grams and then move them to small rats and they have switched over no problem how ever I have a couple snakes that I started on rats and had to feed some ASFs and no I am having a problem getting them back to rats I am sure they will go back to rats soon.