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RE: Live to Frozen Food

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Posted by: teaspoon at Sun Jul 27 19:47:01 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by teaspoon ]  
   

I'm switching my Dumerils boa to F/T right now and this is what I'm doing.
1. Get him used to eating live food from tweezers(I wear a glove instead)
2. Next try an injured rodent
3. Just killed.
4. a few min dead.
5. a little longer dead.
etc, etc. gradually start offering frozen rodents scented with live ones. Make sure you thaw them and warm them(so it can see the heat)I'm doing something like this and in a month I got my Dumerils to eat prekilled, but I'm not finished yet. Good luckk with it. (You may want to offer a warmed F/T prey item befor you start this whole process just to make sure he woun't really eat it. I once bought a baby ball python that supposedly was stubbornly eating only live, first meal I offered it was F/T and he gulped it down!)
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1.2 Ball Pythons 1.1 Amazon Tree Boa 1.0 Corn Snake (and 9 eggs) 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.10 Bearded Dragons 2.1.2 Crested Geckos (and 2 eggs!) 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles 1.0 Northern Mockingbird 0.3 Chickens 2.0 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and 5 Black Rat snake eggs


   

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