Live VS F/T

[Sammy412]

bottom line.....snakes gotta eat SO whatever they'll take

[wendhend]

I picked the "both" option, but there really needs to be an "all three" option. My corn snakes and boas all readily eat frozen / thawed, which I order from Rodentpro.com. From my experience, breeding mice is not really worth it, but breeding my own rats has been extremely beneficial. A few months ago I started breeding the rats in order to help my ball python collection trasition to frozen / thawed, because it is difficult and inconvenient to find smaller live rats to purchase. I have succeeded with trasitioning most of them by offering smaller prekilled rats on tongs, and now they do fine with frozen / thawed or prekilled. But for those couple of resistant live-only feeders, I always conveniently have the right size in for them in my garage. I originally thought my rat-breeding venture would just be temporary until I had them all trasitioned to frozen / thawed, but now I am thinking it's going to be a long-term thing, as I am finding it very convenient and cost-effective as well.

[Lesserbee]

Both!

[MikeV]

bottom line.....snakes gotta eat SO whatever they'll take

Amen to that lol

[ballpythonluvr]

I have a 2010 male that started off on live prey but I have been able to convert him over to f/t. He is a baby so he eats like a little pig. I find f/t to be much more convenient and economical for me.

[PolishPython]

I voted F/T even though I have one stubborn pastel who only takes live mice but im trying and Gosh Darnett ill get him to take the F/T if its the last thing I do lol

[MikeV]

I voted F/T even though I have one stubborn pastel who only takes live mice but im trying and Gosh Darnett ill get him to take the F/T if its the last thing I do lol

Lol, lets hope he decides to take it If not oh well, live isn't so bad. if you suprevise ofcourse lol

[Sarin]

I feed both. I much prefer F/T at the moment but I do not push it on the ones that prefer Live.

Once I need to start breeding my own feeders, I will mos tlikely just convert to live then.

[MikeV]

I feed both. I much prefer F/T at the moment but I do not push it on the ones that prefer Live.

Once I need to start breeding my own feeders, I will mos tlikely just convert to live then.

I see, I find it interesting that you will be going to live like JLC.

Im curious, is it because its easier to feed live when you have a large collection? Im very curious as to why many people feed f/t when they have a msaller collection then switch to live when the collection grows

[Sammy412]

MikeV, I also wondered that. I have always done f/t, even with a big collection. It was cheaper and easier than breeding my own, which I did for a long time as well. When I bred my own, I whacked and froze, then I just said screw it and ordered f/t online.

The only exceptions were a few rattlers that would only take live.

maybe for me it was the hassle of keeping up the breeders, cleaning their tubs, which was way worse than cleaning snake tubs...lol. And had to be done every few days.