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What's the big deal with ASF?
I'm just curious! Are they better for snakes? Are they really THAT good at getting picky snakes to eat? I've seen a lot about them
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Re: What's the big deal with ASF?
I got a male of a 7 month fast with a frozen....could have been luck...who knows he's pounding f/t rats like a champ
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The are not better, their size when full grown is ideal and sometimes when everything has failed they actually help getting a BP back on food however it does not work with all of them.
The few snake I had going through a long fast 9 months to a year NEVER cared for them.
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African soft furs are a native food item for bps in sub-Saharan Africa. People use them to try to get fasting bps to eat. Some believe that since bps evolved to hunt ASFs in nature that it will elicit a stronger feeding response than a standard Sprague Wawley or Wister rat that are usually native to Scandinavian countries.
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Re: What's the big deal with ASF?
Originally Posted by JoshSloane
African soft furs are a native food item for bps in sub-Saharan Africa. People use them to try to get fasting bps to eat. Some believe that since bps evolved to hunt ASFs in nature that it will elicit a stronger feeding response than a standard Sprague Wawley or Wister rat that are usually native to Scandinavian countries.
Are they better for them nutritionally?
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0.1 Bearded Dragon(Beatrix/Trixie)
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2.0 Betta Fish(Finnley & Pescado)
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Re: What's the big deal with ASF?
Originally Posted by SCWood
Are they better for them nutritionally?
I doubt that anyone has done a nutritional breakdown of ASF's but I would highly doubt that they are any better or worse nutritionally then domestic mice or rats. I'm personally not that fond of them myself, I've received baby balls that had been started on ASF's and it was difficult to get them switched over to a more readily available food source.
Also, I don't think anyone knows what the ideal diet for a ball python even is. I feed mine mice and rats and they grow fine, breed fine and are healthy.
Last edited by MarkS; 08-19-2015 at 05:30 PM.
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If you rate them out at ounce per ounce probably not enough difference to matter.
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They are also illegal to own in some states (and are illegal to take across state lines) so if you do think you'd be interested in raising them, you will have to do some homework first. They are illegal to own in my state (GA).
I've heard that they smell less than rats / mice, but not sure if this is true or not.
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Re: What's the big deal with ASF?
Originally Posted by artgecko
They are also illegal to own in some states (and are illegal to take across state lines) so if you do think you'd be interested in raising them, you will have to do some homework first. They are illegal to own in my state (GA).
I've heard that they smell less than rats / mice, but not sure if this is true or not.
Just wondering why they are illegal? Any clue?
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Re: What's the big deal with ASF?
Uh.....have you not seen Gremlins? Get them wet and pop pop pop you are overrun!!!
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