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[AlexisFitzy]

What advantage does F/T have over live?

F/t is also easier to buy in bulk unless you are breeding your own rats. Buying live rats individually is expensive unless you have a nice reliable cheap source.


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[auhsojnacnud]

F/t is also easier to buy in bulk unless you are breeding your own rats. Buying live rats individually is expensive unless you have a nice reliable cheap source.

Oh, my snake isn't big enough to have rats yet. Ive just been getting hopper mice, but ill have to get bigger ones soon.

[JPR]

Oh, my snake isn't big enough to have rats yet. Ive just been getting hopper mice, but ill have to get bigger ones soon.

Hatchling ball pythons are generally big enough to handle rat pinks/fuzzies.

[Cowtipper]

What's the advantage to f/t over live? Nutrition wise, nothing. Convenience and preventing a possible injury to your snake is an advantage though. I hate going to the pet store once a week. I like to go once every two months, get what I need frozen, then thaw it when it's feeding day. It is personal preference though, if you like to go to the store all the time, or keep and care for rats and mice, then feed live.

[Paul's Pieds]

Another advantage is space and disease control. I used to have so many pythons couldn't afford to buy food for all of them. So we bred our own mice and rats and multis. It took up a lot of space but i also noticed when keeping live rodents in the vicinity of the snakes (same building but different room) it was very hard to be tick free. Frozen rodents don't have any parasites !!