Curious?

[Bartman]

So then based on this, Jeff, what would you use first?

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[zero&stich]

Good informantion guys.

Thank you.

[BoidKeeper]

Yup, I don't like names at all. I try to just talk in weights when ever I can.
Cheers,
Trevor

[RandyRemington]

Another consideration is that a live hopper mouse can live on it's own and if your baby ball doesn't eat it today you can try again in a few days. If you are buying rather than breeding your feeders you might spend a lot on rat crawlers that don't get eaten and can't live on their own for very long humanly or at all.

Of course even when I'm breeding my own rats I wouldn't be able to put uneaten crawlers back (contamination of rat colony, will the mother except them?) but hatchling snakes should be clean enough to move a feeder from cage to cage starting with the ones that haven't eaten yet until it gets eaten. And even if it doesn't get eaten at least it didn't cost you much (maybe you can kill it and freeze it for a corn snake breeder).

[Bartman]

If they didnt eat the rat crawler I could always kill it and freeze it for later on, when they start going on the rats. Once they eat there first live, im assuming they will switch to f/t no problem right?

As well, I have other things that would be glad to take down left overs

[RandyRemington]

Once they eat there first live, im assuming they will switch to f/t no problem right?

That's another topic of hot debate. Again, I haven't tried too hard but haven't had much luck getting ball pythons to eat dead very consistently. Maybe you'll have a few, especially young hungry ones that will do it right off the bat for you. I've got a single kinked up corn from my last year of breeding them (1998) that is my garbage disposal for any dead mice.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Large fuzzies or small pups Bartman. For sure.