Ride Or Die.

[Salamander Rising]

BP_Pascal, I feed mostly live, and for the most part, I don't see a problem at all with responsible keepers/breeders feeding live. To me, it sounds like you are a little bit afraid of your snake, so for that reason, I would suggest you stay on the F/T. If you don't want to reach your hand in to offer it a frozen mouse, I don't think you'll want to have to reach in to retrieve a live mouse that has not been eaten. And if you think your snake may be ill, get it to a vet.

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Really???? How many photos/videos have you seen of balls eating mice and rats? If the rodent is just as likely to harm the snake, don't you think you would be seeing LOTS more photos and videos of that? Can it happen...sure, but let's not blow things out of proportion.



Why can you not imagine it? I've been feeding a girl mice only for 8 years...she's now over 2,500 grams and will hit 6-8 mice per feeding. It's just like feeding rats, only smaller ones and more of them.



It will work just fine...please read above.



Not unbelievable at all. As mentioned, I feed mostly live to all my snakes. Some of the ones that get offered frozen from time to time will not touch the food unless it's dangled in front of them.

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If you insist on correcting peoples' usage of capitalization, please learn how to construct grammatically proper sentences first.

An especially feisty yet small mouse kicked my Fire male's butt one night and he went off feed for 4 months.

He just started eating again but I have to really restrain the mice for him.

It put a wicked slash mark across his eye but luckily, he was due for a shed.

The Bee also insists on live but is a vicious killer so he's in no peril.

In a perfect world, all of my snakes would eat F/T but I have those 'problem children' to contend with.