I generally feed stunned, as I have access to a rodent facility, it is useless for me to deal with f/t. I used to feed all f/t but I realized that I save a great deal of time, and the feeding responses I get are much better with stunned than with f/t. I certainly save left overs, and give them to the snakes that will take f/t or the monitor. If I have a snake who I am trying really hard to get up to breeding size and they show a stronger feeding response in their cage, rather than outside of it, then I feed them in their cage. That is for obvious reasons, like this pastel I have, she is about 100 grams away from breeding size, and will eat as much as I offer her, as long as it is in the cage. Otherwise she will only eat occasionally in the box. As far as switching from live to f/t, I have gone about it by offering different levels of stunned rats, until they will accept a completely dead rat. After they take a dead rat, it is good to kill their food, and let it sit for a half hour or so, that way they start getting their feeding response based of smell, not warmth. Typically though, if you have a snake that has a good feeding response in a box, and you feed from tongs, you should have no trouble switching them to f/t
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Ball Pythons:
1.2 Normal
1.2 Pastel
0.1 Black Pastel
2.0 Het Orange Ghost
1.1 Mojave
1.2 Spider
1.0 Albino
0.1 Het Albino
1.0 Piebald
0.1 Het Piebald
Other:
0.1 Irian Jaya x Jungle Carpet python
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0 Tiger Retic
1.1 Burmese Pythons
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
3.3 Corn Snakes
0.0.1 American Alligator
1.0 Savannah Monitor
1.0 Chinese Water Dragon
0.1 Brown Basilisk
0.1 Sulcata Tortoise
1.1 Sugar Gliders
0.1 Puppy

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