Good info... I have been keeping all my feeder animals in my frig freezer, i will start keeping it all in the chest freezer, after what i have read here.

I have a community tank of a 1.5 year old 5 inch Ally snapper, 1.5 year old 4 inch Ally snapper and a 1 year old 4 inch Florida snapper. I keep the three of them in a 150 gallon rubbermaid stock tank in which they are doing quite well at the moment. The two Ally snappers are captive bred and the FL snapper was actually taken as an egg, from a mother that was hit by a car and a guy took the only good egg left when she was opened up. So there should be no problem at that end.

I am a long time avid herper but had not owned any pet turtles since i was a kid, until I recieved the Ally snapper hatchlings. Now i am addicted, to Ally's and any sub species of snapper, in particular. I want to have them all in my collection.

Most recently i have realized how much a wild type diet can benefit my animals. I did not feed them various wild prey before because i was in fear that they would get a form of internal parasites but it seems the risk is low if you do it right, and can have many benefits health wise. I think to often, snapper owners dont feed their animals enough whole prey with gut material. Ie, crayfish, fish, frogs, etc etc.

I would like to hear some more thoughts on this, if any. Thanks to all that have replied.

Thanks again,
Dallas

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• How long to freeze wild caught prey items to kill parasites? - dqreps, Thu Aug 25 17:50:49 2005
• RE: How long to freeze wild caught prey items to kill parasites? - tattoojimmy, Sat Aug 27 10:46:00 2005
• RE: How long to freeze wild caught prey items to kill parasites? - tattoojimmy, Sat Aug 27 10:49:42 2005
• You brought up some interesting discussion - joeysgreen, Sat Aug 27 11:42:57 2005
• RE: You brought up some interesting discussion - dqreps, Mon Aug 29 18:59:16 2005
• RE: You brought up some interesting discussion - joeysgreen, Wed Aug 31 07:41:48 2005
• RE: You brought up some interesting discussion - dqreps, Fri Sep 2 12:08:44 2005