First off BP's are normally most active at night and that is when you should try to get them to take the prekilled if that is the route you want to take. Personally I think that feeding frozen or pre-killed is way over rated. If you feed the propper sized meal and observe there is very very little risk to your snake. We feed almost 100 rats per week and the worse thing that has happened ever, in over 15 years of keeping snakes is that a weaned rat slightly bit an albino while it was trying to breathe. The bite was sooo minimal that you could not see a mark or messed up scale the next day. Yes I know that an unsupervised rodent can kill a snake but that's why you don't leave them unsupervised. Well that's my 2 cents and btw most of the really big breeders feed all their multi-thousand dollar snakes live, it just takes too much time and effort to get hundreds of snakes to eat prekilled with such a small benefit.
-----
Josh & Krysty Hutto

J&K Reptiles



Various Ball Pythons:::



1.0 striped vanilla

1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets

1.2 Albino and hets

2.3 het Pied

1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)

a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males



0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my

over production of rats, lol

0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster

1.1 corns





a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

[ Show Entire Thread ]