I notice there have been some posts regarding the safety of feeding F/T prey to snakes. While there is a degree of safety, freezing is bacteriostatic, not bacteriocidic, as freezing severly inhibits the growth of batceria, but does not eradicate such completely.
The primary reason feeding F/T prey is safer than feeding live is in the elimination of any chance the prey item might injure the specimen being fed during a struggle or if the prey is not immediately eaten and left unattended within the enclosure for a period of time...

Best regards,

Jeff





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Jeff Snodgres
University of Arkansas
snodgresjeffreys@uams.edu
501.603.1947

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