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So some of you have been rather hesitant and questionable as I feed some of my cal kings fish. Obviously that is reasonable and I figured most everybody would question it. I was recently informed that goldfish and some other feeders contain thiminase. Which if fed as a diet can be an obvious threat to the snakes health. I've yet to have side effects from feeding them but I also did not feed them everytime. And I am certainly not going to wait for side effects. I fed them fish as a once a week snack. So I might be feeding balloon mollie to the "fish gobblers." I'd assume that these would be safe considering I have no knowledge of them containing it. Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks!
Sam

Mollies in general are a lot safer than goldfish, as are rosy red minnows. Goldfish breeders use some weird chemicals that I wouldn't trust. Heard this from a friend of mine that runs a tropical fish store.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
4.3.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Everglades Rat Snakes
1.0.0 Baird's Rat Snake
0.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snake
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snake
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (River Road)
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
0.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.0.0 Boa Constrictor
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
1.1.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
0.1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milksnake
1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
1.2.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.0.0 Western Hognose
0.1.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.0 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Striped Walking Frogs
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs

Like i said when you posted last time live bearing fish such as mollies, platies and swordtails, tend to have better nutritional value than the typical feeder comets, i dont feed my snakes fish personally but i feed my frogs fish quite regularly especially my big pyxie frog. they get comets occasional but live bearers are much better, plus, feeder comet tend to come down with bacterail and fungal infecting ten times over live barers which tend to be bred in a cleaner environment. and live bareing fish tend to have lower fat content because they dont need to store it for the eggs
hope this info was informative

Adam

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3.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA (1.0 ALBINO/ 0.2 HYPO)
1.3 ALTERNA
1.1 CAL KING (1.0 ALB.LAVENDER/0.1 BLIZZARD)
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 pyxie
0.0.2 horned frogs

I have never fed fish to my animals, but i would not use feeder goldfish because of the chemicals used to keep them alive..

Years ago one of my friends used to feed fish strips and chicken parts to his indigo snakes with no problems that i know of....

Also, in the book, Keeping and Breeding Snakes, by Criss Matison he talks about feeding cross sections of fish fillet containing bones to snakes, although he does mention that he would only do this as a supplement to a diet of rodents..

Thanks guys! The only reason I even started feeding fish was because my mice breeding rack wasn't producing a thing for weeks. So I decided to toy around by feeding different things. I'm probably going to feed some fat little mollies now, as a snack. Thanks again for the responses.
Sam