Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
So, if freezing destroys Thiamine and all living creatures need it, then why aren't YOU eating live animals????
lol! A co-worker of mine was looking down his nose at F/T, going off about how snakes (reptiles in general, actually - broad discussion) don't find such in the wild.

I nodded through his whole line of reasoning, but had to ask him how the hunt-and-kill went.

To his blank-stare response, I simply pointed to the sandwhich on his desk and repeated, "Hunt-and-kill".

He didn't have a lot to say after that.

It's an interesting question, though. Our diets are quite diverse, ESPECIALLY in comparison to our snakes. Where we can make up a deficiency in one food or even category with another food or category without even thinking about it, not-so for them.

But I'm new to this, so *shrug*. My wife gave me my first baby BP just a few days ago (gorgeous, extremely curious... just wish the pet store that raised her the last few months had kept the climate more humid. She - I think it's a "she" anyway - is shedding in patches. Keeping her humidity around 80% and doing the warm-soak thing to help her out).

Looking forward to the discussion on this one. I'm used to phosphorous/calcium balancing, D3 supplementing, etc etc for lizards, so thiamine supplementation could easily become routine for me (assuming I find a reliable source of supplement, anyway).