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Her first "non live" meal.

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Awesome congrats :), I see it didnt take to long to get her to take non live food(im guessing since you only got her like a week or so ago, according to other topics). I see thats alot, so many people are so quick to jump and say their BP will only eat live.
 
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The day I picked her up was her normal feeding day so that night after she had a few hours to settle in, I tried a live feeder with her and her sisters since Will said that was what they were currently on. They all ate with no problem.

I tried f/t this past feeding day (to keep them on their schedule) and the 2 sisters took it no problem but she refused. Today I tried again (with a live backup ready just in case). She slammed the f/t no problem.

So much easier and cheaper when they feed on f/t. No running to the petstore to get an overpriced live feeder from them.:p
 
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SPJ said:
The day I picked her up was her normal feeding day so that night after she had a few hours to settle in, I tried a live feeder with her and her sisters since Will said that was what they were currently on. They all ate with no problem.

I tried f/t this past feeding day (to keep them on their schedule) and the 2 sisters took it no problem but she refused. Today I tried again (with a live backup ready just in case). She slammed the f/t no problem.

So much easier and cheaper when they feed on f/t. No running to the petstore to get an overpriced live feeder from them.:p
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Yea, plus its much safer.
 
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ReptileMan27 said:
Yea, plus its much safer.
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if you are feeding off of tongs and you watch while the snake wraps and kills the prey, it is safe. it's when you leave a live rodent in the enclosure and are not "supervising" it when it can get harmful to the snake.

congrats steve lookin good :thumbsup:
 
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if you are feeding off of tongs and you watch while the snake wraps and kills the prey, it is safe. it's when you leave a live rodent in the enclosure and are not "supervising" it when it can get harmful to the snake.

congrats steve lookin good :thumbsup:
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Well thats what I thought intill I nearly lost one of my BPs to it:(. I never left my BPs alone intill I was sure the rodent was dead, well that normally worked fine, that all changed when one of my BPs made a bad strike and grabbed the mouse in the back, in a split second the mouse turned around and latched onto my BPs neck, in the few seconds the mouse was latched onto the snakes neck before I got it off, it ripped the snakes neck open and nearly killed it :(. Their are few cases that a snake will only take live, to many people jump into assuming their snake will only take live. Thats just not the case, most that people say will only take live, will take pre-killed without trouble, its got the same warmth, scent, and you can easily make movement if needed.
 
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