Do You Feed White Or Coloured???

[COLDBLOODED262]

if you think about it girbils had to come from one original species and evolved and spread out over the melllenia.almost every creature has a begining species that they started from and evolved from. or are you saying that the gerbil is an animal that does not share any traits with any other type of gerbil??

[LadyOhh]

if you think about it girbils had to come from one original species and evolved and spread out over the melllenia.almost every creature has a begining species that they started from and evolved from. or are you saying that the gerbil is an animal that does not share any traits with any other type of gerbil??

That may be true, but YOUR statement was that Gerbils were from Africa, so therefore better to feed to BPs. Which was incorrect. Common pet gerbils in the USA are from Asia.

And, with your reasoning, why not then feed Rats or mice, since they are also related to Gerbils???

[MeMe]

And, with your reasoning, why not then feed Rats or mice, since they are also related to Gerbils???

cause girbils have better cents?!?!

[COLDBLOODED262]

also bost snakes dont seem to prefer color for the most part but ive foud that when a snke refuses to eat the regular white mice a darker colored like solid brown or black will usualy trigger a feeding reaction but to tell you the truth pythons preffer gerbils cuz that is one of the most common rodent where they come from

see i didnt say all girbils come from africa what i meant was that gerbils are the most common rodent you will probably find in a pythons natural habitat so therefore the snake will be more apt to eat one its kind of like genetic instinct

[COLDBLOODED262]

Common pet gerbils in the USA are from Asia.

And, with your reasoning, why not then feed Rats or mice, since they are also related to Gerbils???

it realy doesnt matter where it came from a gerbil is a gerbil as far as the snake is concerned

[COLDBLOODED262]

ohh and i do feed mice gerbils cost too much

[COLDBLOODED262]

cause girbils have better cents?!?!

Good answer LOL

[MarkS]

just because the gerbils from the pet stores come from mogolia does not mean that there are none in a pythons habitat. Also you cant say tha evey gerbil in every pet store in the us came frome mongolia

Yes I can actually, in fact I believe that every pet store gerbil in the US came from a small group of around a dozen individuals imported from mongolia to be used as lab animals

My point is, that the gerbils sold in Pet stores are a COMPLETELY different species and have a completely different smell then any rodent species from Africa that shares the range of the ball python. They are NOT a natural prey item for ball pythons.

[COLDBLOODED262]

oh so you know what an african scent is compared to a mongolian??

the main difference between african and mongolian gerbils is their size not cent. that is like saying a brown rat smells totaly different that a white rat

[monk90222]

And, with your reasoning, why not then feed Rats or mice, since they are also related to Gerbils???

Or squirrels, they're in the rodent family..I'm sure there are african squirrels that have a "cent" that BP are used to.....