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06-14-04, 12:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: Fargo, ND
Age: 43
Posts: 579
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Live or F/T?
Most people on the site stress how important feeding F/T over live, and I 100% agree, yet there are some who still do not seem to understand. Perhaps a visual statistic may help show them how many successful herpers there are out there who do not feed live.
Feel free to add comments or reasons why you choose to feed live or Frozen/Thawed.
Thanks!
Brent Strande
EDIT: Sorry Tim, I meant to add a 5th but couldn't edit the poll, if a mod could add it for me that would be great...
Here is #5
Live only when necessary, prefer F/T ASAP
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Last edited by jjnnbns; 06-14-04 at 01:13 AM..
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06-14-04, 01:04 AM
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Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: Manitoba
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With over 100 snakes in my house right now, my answer is all of the above. 
Depends on the snake... all will be on f/t asap but some hatchlings pretty much need a few live meals to get going. 
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06-14-04, 01:26 AM
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Join Date: Aug-2003
Location: SJ, NB
Age: 46
Posts: 834
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I feed fresh killed but my boa will take all of the above. Usually I buy several rats, kill them all feed her then freeze the rest.
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06-14-04, 03:37 AM
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Join Date: Dec-2002
Posts: 716
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Agreed with Tim, you can't really answer that one with a single option. Most are on F/T or F/K, but I do have some hold outs that will only take live or stunned and hoping to get them switched.
Cheers
Jim
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06-14-04, 06:49 AM
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#5
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Join Date: May-2003
Location: Richmond VA
Age: 56
Posts: 339
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I prefer f/t but I've got a couple of picky little African House snakes that prefer live pinks/fuzzies. I've had pretty good luck switching all my other snakes over from live.
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06-14-04, 07:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct-2003
Location: Southern Ontario
Age: 47
Posts: 1,268
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All of mine are on f/t except one.
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06-14-04, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2004
Location: woodlyn,pa
Age: 45
Posts: 2
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I have 3 snakes in my house 2-6'6" boas and a five foot ball python for the ball that is eating mice i'll stun the mice cause they tend to bite at the snake but the boas are on the rats so fast they dont have time to bite the snakes and they have never wraped the rats wrong so they dont relly have a problem
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06-14-04, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canuckland
Age: 46
Posts: 3,934
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The majority of our snakes take F/T. Fresh killed for some of the more finicky eaters, and live only as a last resort for our snakes that refuse anything else. I've never used stunned.
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06-14-04, 03:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2002
Location: Regina, SK
Posts: 2,714
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Frozen thawed for all - so much cheaper than any alternative. Have fed live pinks to start some reluctant feeders and fed live (supervised always) in the past to stubborn snakes (ball pythons! what else),
mary v.
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06-14-04, 05:54 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: Fraser Valley, BC
Age: 43
Posts: 373
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I am all of the above as well. Would you rather have your snake starve itself to death or feed it live? Duh! All my snakes are offered frozen/thawed, but my 4 biggest ball pythons will only eat live.
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06-14-04, 06:00 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2002
Posts: 5,936
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Prefer FT for everything.....live for anything needing a first meal, or picky for too long. (ball pythons of course lol)
Marisa
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06-15-04, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: May-2003
Location: U.S.A
Posts: 982
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Depending on the individual animal I'm feeding it could be any of the above.
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06-15-04, 03:32 PM
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#13
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Age: 65
Posts: 1,485
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I feed live most of the time if I have it. With the species I work with, neonates require live food so there is little choice. Many young snakes will feed more readily on live food as it offers all three of the strike criteria, those being movement, scent and correct target temperature.(boids)
I do stock frozen rats and mice for convenience and use these with adult snakes, but I have used live food for over a couple decades, and will continue to.
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06-15-04, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2004
Location: US
Age: 44
Posts: 12
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i feed live all my snakes seem to liek the hunt and even if u dangle them in front they seem to like catching it more
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06-16-04, 12:42 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Pulaski, Virginia
Age: 37
Posts: 341
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i only feed live to reluctant feeders...but luckally i now have all my snakes on f/t after a while with live pinkies for my BRB
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