Live prey vs......

[Adam_Wysocki]

I'm so tempted to find out how MUCH trouble you could get yourself into Adam At the very least it would keep the mood light and I know I can always use a good laugh!

You are EVIL!!!! (i like that) .... If you're even half the hottie that your sister is you could probably get me banned from the internet without much trouble!!!

-adam

[VFT]

Small Rat to my female....would be interesting. I can see it now she strikes at it only to accidentally swallow the whole thing. Lol

[Egyptian_Sphynx]

i feed nothing but live. i have not tried p/k or f/t i just dont want to switch. i dont mind the sitting around and making sure that they are alright.

[Schlyne]

I almost always feed frozen thawed, but I have fed prekilled. I often buy smaller amounts of live feeders at the swap (I don't think I could go through 50 mouse fuzzies before they went back). I would prefer that my babies not get spoiled on live and start refusing anything else

[tigerlily]

Sorry Adam...Wendy's the cute one. I guess I'm the evil one. Although I might be able to get you suspended I guess I should embrace my evilness! So watch out

[gncz73]

i use to feed f/t but it got crazy trying to thaw 20 out a week and in a about 30 day when i get my 20 females and my new baby that would be about 60 a week too crazy so now i feed live it easier and faster. but cost me alot more. 2.50 a rat. Adam where do you get your and do they ship.

[wendyhoo9]

You are EVIL!!!! (i like that) .... If you're even half the hottie that your sister is you could probably get me banned from the internet without much trouble!!!

-adam

Hey Adam, thanks!

Don't let Christie lie to you...she's cute and evil, that's why I love her!

Just to throw my 2 cents in I don't have any qualms feeding my new cresties live crickets!! I know, I'm outta my league. Well, you guys play nice :-)

[wendyhoo9]

Dude, sassing back is hard when you can't type... there was supposed to be a wink instead of a sad face...and me a Biology teacher... Yes, that's right folks, I teach the youth of America...be afraid, be very afraid.

[BALLPYTHON]

hey adam
how do you responsibly feed a live adult rat to a snake.
for example how do you feed live and make sure there is a low chance of a rat bite?

im just asking out of curiosity. i'm not trying to challenge a statement anyone has made.

I personally feed either frozen or live. Whatever is available.

[smellati]

I have a friend who got a bp, cause he liked the one I had. At one point, he bought 2 mice, and he told me that since his bp's was shedding, he had to wait to feed them. But my friend isn't exactly the smartest guy I have ever met. So he did not feed them. He had the mice for 3 days, and on the fourth day, he woke up to see that one mouse had killed the other and had half eaten it.

Sure, there is an obvious moral to this story, but I think that there is something more important to learn here. It took 4 days of starvation to turn a mouse into a blood thirsty carnivore.

There is nothing wrong with feeding live, as long as the mouse doesn't stay with your snake for hours. If your snake doesn't eat within 20 minutes, there is a good chance he/she won't eat it at all. Most of the horror stories we hear of mice or rat munching on snakes are based on the fact that they where left together for days, unsupervised. Some may have seen mice or rats attacking snakes in much shorter time, but generally speaking, it takes up to a few days for a hungry mouse or rat to see a snake as a meal.