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I am unable to get a mouse for my bp frozen right now, and I don't know of any places that have good feeders near me, would i be ok getting one for him from a pet store that they are selling as a pet??? I think he is finally ready to eat, so I wanted to make sure, before I go get one.
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A.J.
1.0.0- Amel Motley Corn- Valentine (R.I.P 5/20/05)
0.1.0- Snow Corn- Artica
1.0.0- Normal Corn- Ember
1.0.0- Ball Python- G.T.

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A.J.
1.0.0- Amel Motley Corn- Valentine (R.I.P 5/20/05)
0.1.0- Snow Corn- Artica
1.0.0- Normal Corn- Ember
1.0.0- Ball Python- G.T.

Not sure I understand the question - has your snake only eaten f/t up until now and you are wondering if live is ok? If so yes - you might want to prekill it for him if he is not used to killing it on his own (just a recaution). If he has never eaten for you before - then again yes - any appropriate sized rodent will do. If I've misunderstood the question - let me know.
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

6.42.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)
0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.0 frogs rescued from pool skimmer
0.0.1 Lizard of unknown origin

I bought him about a month ago, and he has yet to eat, due to me moving i think...he has been very active the past couple days, and i tried feeding him frozen last week, and nothing, I wanted to know what i should do basically, I have a hard time getting f/t or live feeders, so I wanted to know if it was ok to get one that petco/petsmart sells as a pet???? or if they are that bad there shoudl i just wait??? I hope this helps
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A.J.
1.0.0- Amel Motley Corn- Valentine (R.I.P 5/20/05)
0.1.0- Snow Corn- Artica
1.0.0- Normal Corn- Ember
1.0.0- Ball Python- G.T.

Generally, Petco and Petsmart make you sign a piece of paper promising that you won't feed pet mice to a snake. I don't think that there's a health issue involved in feeding one of these to your snake. You just have to be willing to sign something falsely. If you're in a position to order frozen rodents online, you could order from Big Cheese Rodent factory on Monday morning, and you'd have frozen feeders by Wednesday afternoon. (I mention Big Cheese because I just made my first ever rodent order and used them. My only concern is that my ball python has never taken a gray rat, and most of these were gray. Other places could get the same feeders to you by Tuesday or Wednesday as well. Big Cheese offered me overnight service.)

If your snake didn't take a f/t rodent last week, you might look harder for a live rat pinkie to feed him. My girl started on live rat pinkies.

Where do you live? If you're willing to drive a bit, there's probably a store where you could get feeders tomorrow. Where did you get the one that you offered last week? Can you get another one there? How much did you heat it and for how long? I like to heat them for at least 20 to 25 minutes in water to ensure that they are warm all the way through.

You might want to go through the feeder ads here on kingsnake.com and look for a place that's near you. Some of them will sell live feeders if you're willing to pick them up at the facility. Others are mail order only, and I doubt you'll find one that will ship live feeders.

I don't know whether I've helped you. I'm sorry if this isn't what you needed.

I wish you luck. I'd have gone crazy if my little girl didn't eat for the first month that I had her.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

"Generally, Petco and Petsmart make you sign a piece of paper promising that you won't feed pet mice to a snake."

Realy did not know that. And what I mewn by that is the petco out here Never once asked us to sign nutin lol. And knows exactly what we were using them for. We are tring to breed our own mice for problem feeders ect. But do not have enough yet to stop getting live from them once in a while. We have about 46 rats right now (with babies) we will be selling and trading for what we need.

But to add to the origanal qustion I think it would be fine to feed them live from the pet store. A lot of peple get their breeding stock from pet stores.
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1.2.0 ball python (aragorn, arwen,`eowyn)
1.0.0 100% het pied (frodo)
1.0.0 columbian boa (squiggles)
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
0.1.0 corn snake (baby)
0.0.2 whites tree frog (trevor, kirmet)
0.0.5 pacific green tree frogs
3.2.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
Brian n Chrissy
"snakes are kind of like potato chips, you cant have just one"

I guess that the policy is different in different places. The Petsmart and Petco here don't have any signs announcing their policy, but a buddy who feeds live says that he can't get feeders at these stores because of this policy. I think it's good that they handle the situation differently in your area.

AJ,

If you're still checking the thread, please check out havic's post for another idea about where to get feeders.

Thanks,

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

Well, I do have places to get the but the 50 mile round trip drive is just hard at times, I have to go there soon anyways to stock up on frozen for my corns, I am trying to find a place close to my work or something to get live I think he wants live, and I'm guessing he'll only eat at night, so I need to go by the pet shop at night which is even harder...I usually leave the ones for my corns under the light to warm up, any they do just fine, but the bigger food seems to take for ever to get ready f/t, I am thinking my BP was fed live, but I just dunno what to do right now...sorry i am just so lost
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A.J.
1.0.0- Amel Motley Corn- Valentine (R.I.P 5/20/05)
0.1.0- Snow Corn- Artica
1.0.0- Normal Corn- Ember
1.0.0- Ball Python- G.T.

My girl ate some of her first meals in the daytime. I'd go by the shop to pick of the rat pinkie, bring it home, and let her eat. I think that a rat pinkie could survive for several hours anyway, so you wouldn't have to feed immediately if you brought it home during the day.

One thing that I've thought about doing is getting a black cloth that I could wrap all the way around my cages when I want to give them a sense of night. Maybe blacking out your cages would work for your guy.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.