Brad, I don't feed snakes or lizards to any snakes but my indigo, and only occasionally, but I scent all the time. By freezing and nuking the "juice" I haven't had any problems yet, but I do get wild caughts that are loaded, it takes time to get rid of these bugs and they are always separated from my c.b. stuff. With enough heat and fresh water exchanges, they get rid of the bugs pretty fast. That said, I don't work with any northern or eastern type milks, just the anulatta, celaenops, and amaura, and of the three, the amaura have the most bugs. I think the southern and western types have less parasites, being desert or thornscrub animals, not wetland types. Just a hunch, but I think the wetter the climate, the more parasites that are found in the prey items. I've never seen any of the southern and western animals that were obviously loaded with endos or ectos, but have seen lots of different wetter types that were loaded.
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Todd Hughes

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