Unless you're killing a large number of mice/rats with CO2 a chamber can be a real pain to set up. I know cause I tried just for feed my two snakes. It's actually less work to switch over to frozen/thawed. Spend a few feeding session with 2 prey items. A small live one and a small f/t one. First sent the f/t one with the live one by putting them in the same container. Try to include some shavings from the live ones cage. Feed the live one and right after your snake does that last little stretch of the neck where you hear the bones break introduce the f/t one. It should take it cause the feeding response is one. Also try leaving a f/t over night a few times when it passes feeding day. This way it's hungry and out looking for food at night. Missing a few days of feeding is not a big deal. In the long run it's a whole lot easier than gassing mice every week.

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• Please help with feeding question. - drasticplastic, Wed Mar 17 22:37:15 2004
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