By leave them alone for an hour you mean watch them the whole time where they can't see you....that is critical. In one hour a scared rodent can evicerate your snake. I know you say I have done this for a million years and ndver had one do this...well I have and so has Ralph and so has Joe and Wes...just one each but that's too many. Live rodents are very dangerous to your snake so you must be judicious in monitoring what goes on. It takes one slip up, and your snake is in a world of hurt. Our one was a beautiful female of breeding age, and we missed that this rat was in the tank, he had hidden. I just happened to go back down to the tanks a few hours later and my female was missing 2/3 of her skin along her back down to the spinal cord. It took 4 months to save her.
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Mike and David at 3-D Pythons
www.3dpythons.com

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