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RE: Poll: For those who feed FT & live

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Posted by: delphipythons at Sat Jul 8 21:56:22 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by delphipythons ]  
   

I used to feed both (we had balls that would not touch f/t and some that didn't mind) but as of two months ago I have switched to 100% live.

Every time I go to feed now I can be assured that 90% of my collection take a rat instantly (the 10% that don't eat usually turn out to be going into shed). When I was feeding f/t I found that only 50% of the balls that would eat f/t would actually ingest a rat during a feeding.

Raising and breeding rats is definitely a pain but it's worth it to me because I can sleep better at night knowing that I have a collection that is healthy and feeding regularly! If my snakes prefer live, then I do too.

Interesting poll. Thanks,
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John Scully
Delphi Pythons
www.delphipythons.com (website coming soon)

   

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