O ok. Im not trying to switch any of my snakes. Feeding live works great for me. The reason i have this 1 frozen rat is that i bought it alive for one of my other BPs but he went on a hunger strike and it got too big for him. I had to kill it and freeze it. Now i got this 2,000 plus gram female and i am want to feed her this rat. Its more of a one time thing so the rat doesnt go to waste.