Alive vs Dead

[Gaius Marius]

when feeding..What is prefered. Would it make a bp more aggressive hunting for its prey vs it being killed and when it comes to a wc bp is it more difficult to get it to take dead food. How does it know its food if its dead (assuming smelling via tongue right?)

[kavmon]

this subject is mainly preference. both ways of feeding are fine and bp will thrive either way. both ways also have to be done correctly. there is alot of pages on this subject, using the search feature should bring them up.

aggression is not from feeding live or frozen, i've had bp's attack frozen just as much as live. aside from smell bp's can also detect minute changes in body temps with their heat sensors, they can detect the warmer areas of a rodent and "see" a thermal image as well.


vaughn

[Gaius Marius]

I figured as much however i thought i should ask.