Geno progression thread!

[GpBp]

Hey GpBp, long time no talk. Glad to here Geno is doing well.

I am of the opinion you want him on rats sooner than later, especially if that's what you want him to eat as adult, which I assume you do.

They can imprint on food, be picky, fast, etc. He is a BP.

However, the sooner you can get him to associate RAT = FOOD and that nothing else is coming, the better.

I've seen mixed packaging at pet stores and frankly, don't really trust them. I get all my frozen rodents from either a local reptile specific store where I know the owner and he breeds, or from Big Cheese or Perfect Prey. Much more from the latter. The reptile store is more for emergencies or small quantities. For example, I needed about ten small pinkies to get Solana (baby corn) going and then can switch to normal pinkies. Not worth ordering a bag of 50 small pinkies to waste 40, so I got them from the local reptile store.

However, what I really like about the good online retailers of frozen prey is that they package them really well.

Therefore, you can store them for 6-9 months pretty easily before opening and still have fresh rodents.

If the rodents sit in your freezer after being taken out of vacuum seal, or were never vacuum sealed to begin with, this can affect their smell, taste, and nutritional value.

Make sure your frozen rodents, pardon the expression, are fresh. Makes a big difference, especially with picky eaters like BP's.

My corns would probably try to eat a frozen mouse if I tried, but not a good idea.

Keep us in the loop.

To be honest, I don't really care if he ends up eating mice or rats. I would prefer rats, but it's not too big a deal to me as long as he's eating. When he got big enough to eat small rats, I got them at Petsmart just to kinda see if he'd eat them (I didn't wanna buy a twenty pack from feedersource if they were all gonna go to waste). After he ate the first 3 or so fine, I thought it was all good until he refused these last two weeks! I just don't know if I should try to stick with changing him to rats (little more expensive if they keep going to waste ), or I could go back to mice since I know he likes those. O R maybe he's just fasting and he likes the rats idk lol.
Nice talkin to you again Dakski!