Freezing Prey Items and Nutrition
So, as my other threads stated, I will be getting a Caiman Lizard within the next month or so, weather permitting. This fella is on canned snails, but I personally don't find that as nutritionally sound as fresh killed. Caiman Lizards usually eat a diet exclusively consisting of snails, though you can introduce new food items, too, but that's not the point of this thread.
At any rate, so, I'll be breeding Apple snails, the 'diffusa' variety. This specific variety can lay clutches of 200-600 eggs in a clutch, and lay a clutch every 4-7 days during their breeding cycle... Quite obviously, that is more snails than a lil' lizard could reasonably eat (as mine is a baby). So, I'm wondering... could I freeze the excess snails for later thawing without losing nutrition?
If I remember correctly, it doesn't make any huge change to nutrition like cooking does, but just making sure.
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