Ok, here is what I am curious about, what really are the chances of a captive bred snake developing a parasitic infestation from eating live prey. Believe me, I am actually trying to see the other side of the feeding issue, my intention to be completely objective. Reason I ask, is I am getting a pair of beautiful spiders from a very well known ball guy locally, and he is feeding them live prey. So I assume if there was a high risk, he would not be doing that,as has very valuable animals.