I have a wild suggestion. Stop using frozen. When someone has a small collection, frozen is fine. But, as you are seeing, once our collection gets to a certain size, frozen can get out of hand. To time consuming and to messy.

In keeping snakes for over thirty years, I've never been happy trying to use frozen. To me it's just a waste of time and resources. How many times have you had a snake not eat a frozen rodent? What do you do with it? Try to give it to another snake? Re-freeze it? Or just throw it in the trash?

I for one, refuse to offer that food item to another snake, do not wish to travel cage to cage, begging for someone to consume it. If you re-freeze it, the secont thaw it will just be a mess with fur.

Now, with fresh live rodents, just dispatched before feeding, is in my humble opionion, the best method. Warm, smells great and is tasty. Who want's frozen hamburger for every meal?

Ok, that was a joke, but seriously, once your collection gets to a certain size, Live, fresh is the way to go.

Sorry, I think outside the box.

Ron Billingsley

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