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Originally Posted by TCS-bot
I've used the co2 keyboard cleaners in the past for small animals.
Works well, and without having to source a larger co2 cylinder that may be to big for just a few animals.
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Those are no longer CO2. It's trifluoroethane. It has been for at least four or five years. That's not something you want in the animal's system when you feed it to your snake. It's essentially fluorene (fluoride) gas. At high enough concentrations you're going to cause skeletal fluorosis in your snake. Look it up (75-37-6 CAS). The reason the animal dies is that the gas displaces oxygen and the actual fluoride component at that high a concentration basically causes brain damage.
It won't go away as it is not metabolized and remains persistently in the environment. If the animal breathes it, that fluorene becomes part of the animal and then the snake.
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