The reason I am asking this is because our Snickers always ate outside the enclosure but recently(talking 2 months ago) became very picky about it and refused food over and over and over again even though conditions remained the same.


We have always fed in a separate enclosure due to fears of aspen substrate causing an inpaction. We finally gave up on this tonight and gave Snickers the F/T prey in a tupperware container with napkins at the bottom and put it in her enclosure and sure enough Snickers finally ate again!

So this is the way we will be feeding from now on because not only does snickers approve of it but it is easier on us as well in the long run!


My only question is how long do I leave a F/T mouse in Snicker's enclosure before it' becomes bad?

Before when Snickers refused prey we tossed the dead mice out in the yard and the abundance of feral cats in the neighborhood insured the dead mouse didn't even last an hour in the yard.


Snickers ate asap tonight but how long before the prey is left untouched before I need to throw it out?(just asking for future reference)