Time to try frozen???

[greenmonkey51]

I have to work on feeding day next work and I cant get to the pet store. Should I just try frozen and get it on the day before. Or could I feed 6 days between feedings. If she doesn't eat frozen I can try a live on Saturday or Sunday. How long is frozen good. Would it matter if I got it tommorow or the day before I feed.

[frankykeno]

Personally I don't see a massive problem with moving one day from the feeding day. Not if you're talking a healthy, well established, good feeding response snake. Maybe I'm wrong here but geesh these snakes in the wild don't eat on the same day every week, heck I doubt they manage to eat every week!

Sure it's good to stay on schedule and a lot of change might stress the snake out if it kept happening over and over but one day of one week I don't think is a major deal.

As far as freezing, I would assume that like any frozen "meat" as long as the article is properly packaged (no air in the package, heavy freezer class plastic not just a cheapo zip loc baggie, consistently hard frozen state without thawing and refreezing) that it would last at least 6 months plus. Is there any study out there that long term freezing does any damage or causes a degradation of the quality of the prey item?


~~Jo~~

[greenmonkey51]

I think Im going to try frozen on Thursday. If she doesn't eat I can always try on the weekend.