Feeding Frozen thawed or Live While Breeding?
Do you feed live or frozen in breeding season. It seems to me my snakes don't put on much weight with frozen. So, do you guys feed frozen during breeding season or when your trying to fatten up a female?
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I switch to live. None of mine will eat F/T during breeding season, this is how I keep them eating till the end.
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Ok I probably am just not feeding frequently enough.
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So is live any healthier than frozen?
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GPreptiles
Mine are eating frozen no problem (even a female which was not interested in f/t prey before breeding season :D). Only those which are normally eating live (one of my males) gets only a small live mouse and then as he is finishing I stick a f/t rat in his mouth and he eats no problem - much safer then giving him live rats ;).
All of mine were killing f/t rats leading up to the middle of breeding season then the went off feed. I introduced live and they kept eating for another month and just now went off feed from live as well. Also its not really unsafe feeding live rats as long as you keep an eye on them to make sure they kill it. Man how did these snakes ever survive in the wild without our help lol.