Alright This is a question to all those who prefer Frozen Thawed over Live. I was doing some research on Ball Pythons and came across something I found quite interesting. Apparently an important B Vitamin called Thiamine is used by all living creatures to metabolize carbs and fats to produce energy. It is essential for normal growth and development and helps maintain functioning of the heart, central nervous system, and digestion.

However, the thiamine found in mice and rats is destroyed when that animal is frozen. This leads me to believe that Ball Pythons fed F/T are not receiving sufficient helpings of this vitamin. And could lead to malnutrition or pre mature death.

To all of those out there that do F/T meals, do you give vitamin supplements to your snake OR believe this whole study to be plain gibberish?