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Does anyone have any suggestions for uneaten thawed pinks and mice? It seems like every time i feed i have at least one left over. I cant re-freeze them so i have been thinking of getting a lizard or frog or something to clean up the uneaten food. Something that doesn't get too big.

Any suggestions?

Every collection should have a garbage can that can help clean up. I'm not sure how big your collection is but surely you have a few never refuse eaters in there!

These are mine

For large prey items

For smaller items...for the time being...

Dave

DNS Reptiles

I used to have a cal king that ate anything.I gave that to Joecop a few years ago but these guys will eat most anything they can

btw, I refreeze stuff if it hasn't been laying around too long
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Doug L

LOL! Yeah Doug, "Birdy" (cal king you gave to me), as my kid named her, does a fantastic job of cleaning up as evidenced by her 12" of growth this past year. She has never refused anything put in her cage. She is the only snake in my collection that my wife actually likes. I also have a pair of Pender County Eastern Kings that charge the cage when you have food in your hands. They have taken over Birdy's job while she is cooling. Man, I wish all snakes had the attitude of all these snakes people are showing as clean-up snakes. Hell, a gbk as a clean up snake!! Awesome!

Wow, great color already on that little fuzzy eater. Love the climber!!! What kind of milks are those?

I have this Hwy 277 alterna female that could eat everything I place in front of her. But find the only cornsnake I own does a slightly better job on the leftovers.

Here she is not making a spectacle of herself.

This Honduran has no shame about what and how much it will eat.

Oh, and these dudes have never ever snubbed a food item.

Cole has a albino Cal. king that will eat the mouse and the snake eating it if he could. I'll try and get a photo of the poor pasty looking thing.
Until then here is Corny corn tooth, who does a good job of cleaning up after others who are a little more picky.

Dell, I love the fact that you have a GBK that "cleans house"! Just awesome. A looker to boot!

Yeah Joe, I have three kids, and when I do a snake presentation for their class I'll give the Grayband a f/t mouse to eat for the kids to watch. She hasn't failed to take the mouse yet, even w/ sixty or more eyes watching as she takes it down.

-Dell

Dell,....

So did you have your camera set on "smurf" that day, or what??..LOL!

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Ha, it is pretty blue isn't it? It's an old photo from a point and shoot that I photographed a few years ago. I don't own a scanner.
Here are the two older smurfs w/ a few Horned Lizards we found w/ Cole.

-Dell

How big is she and do you breed her?

Joe, I'm not sure how big she is, maybe 3', 31/2'. Plenty big to breed, and yes I bred her for the first time this year. After dropping her clutch of eggs she really turned on her feeding metabolism. Here is a neonate from her.

-Dell

Hwy 277, TX.

"Cole has a albino Cal. king that will eat the mouse and the snake eating it if he could. I'll try and get a photo of the poor pasty looking thing."

As promised, here is Willy, now I'm not big for naming snakes but this name seems to have stuck. If I remember right, Cole got pasty old Willy from a girl Cole new who was moving out of town, and didn't want to take Pasty Willy w/ her. Sometimes girls are mean.
Cole never met a snake he didn't like, and ended up w/ Pasty.

I thought Willy was disgusting looking, pale to the point of being pink, w/ no aesthetic worth what so ever. But Willy has grown on me, like a loose tooth, or a wart on your finger you can't stop playing w/. Every time I'd go over to Cole's I'd have to see Willy he is really very rough and tumble, if you have any snake musk on your hand he will eat the hand, and I liked that about him. If your hands are clean he'll chill out w/ you all day.While taking these photos I literally grabbed his head and nose between my thumb and fore finger and moved his head into postion for the shot, didn't bother him one bit. You couldn't do that to a Milksnake w/out it spazzing out.
He still isn't nice to look at w/ his pale cadaverous scales, and his feeble degree of chroma, his pink eyes. But I have to admit there is something about him I like.
-Dell

There is something about "good handling snakes" that I love as well. ( by the way I kinda of like the way he looks and I am not into albino's or anything) My favorite snakes in my collection are not the best looking ones by a long shot. The snakes you can just walk around the house with and let your kids hold without the fear of them or you getting bit and musked are my favorites. One of them is the cal king I got from Snakebit. She reminds me of pasty the way you describe him.

>-Dell
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I can explain it - Cal kings friggin rock. Oh sure, you guys may have the multistrata and the other multitudes of nice species, but here in the West we gots the Cali's. Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving. lol
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Mark

I agree with the rats being the cleanup crews, I have a corn, some bairdi and most important, several P.e.meahlmorrims that take the cake,..err, mice/rats.

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Todd Hughes

My spotted turtles LOVE excess pinkies!
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

"Some things are flat impossible-until they're done."
Robert A. Heinlein

My western toads, plains toads, & Egyptian toad eat the wasted live pinkies, & I give the uneaten f/t pinkies to my tiger salamander. The only amphibians I have that dont eat pinkies every now & then are my fire salamanders because they just dont like them, & my spadefoot toads & northern longtoed salamanders because they are too small.
You do have to give them bugs & worms too, but toads & salamanders are good for eating wasted pinkies & they dont get too big.

Dan Eby

This 9' 8" beast is my one man clean up crew.

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Randy Whittington

Now that is one cool looking snake. AWESOME!!!

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Randy Whittington

Randy I just couldnt help but laugh when I saw this gargantuan bruiser of Elaphe.......oh my, almost 10 whole feet of vinegar and spice, eh?
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Jerry Kruse

And God said, "Let there be zonata subspecies for all to ponder..."

You might say his main squeeze (pun intended) provides the spice! lol

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Randy Whittington

Will it hiss at you like a Bullsnake too Randy?

-Dell

When they get pissed they will rise up and puff their throat up. Then they might give a short little his but once their angry it's almost immediatly followed by a bite and that 4 ft plus strike range can be tuff to dodge.
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Randy Whittington

Is that why your entire arm was covered in band-aids at Daytona?..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

I actually have a picture of my chin bleeding where she bit me in the face a few years ago. I'll try and find it when I get home.
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Randy Whittington

That should have been spelled HISS.
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Randy Whittington

Taiwan beauty snake (Orthriophis t. f.) right, Randy?

Wow, over 9', good god that's a cool looking Rat snake. I'll bet that thing never stops eating. A hairless mouse pink would be a breath mint for it.
I like that a lot, very cool.

-Dell

It's a taeniura subspecies which were never given their own subspecies name but are recognized as a subspecies. They are listed in Klaus-Dieter Schultz's book as Taeniura ssp., commonly called Blue Beauties.

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Randy Whittington

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my mexican black kingsnake will eat anything!!!!!!! i have even givin him baby corns that wouldnt eat or were not thriving.....
adam jeffery
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" a.k.a. farfrumugen "
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

I have a HUGE Alligator Lizard that I caught on my property maybe 2 years ago, eats Mealworms and Crickets but will also take 3-4 pinkies at a time if I have them left over. This is the meanest Reptile I have ever had in my life!!!
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Scott MacLeod
2.6 Snow Hondurans
1.1 Aberrant Snow Hondurans
2.4 Aberrant Hondurans
1.3 Aberrant Tangerine Hondurans
1.2 Aberrant Hypo Hondurans
0.1 Aberrant Hybino Honduran
1.3 Extreme Hypo VP
1.1 Tricolor Hypo VP
0.1 Hypo E Sinaloan
1.0 Het Hypo E & Amel
0.1 Amel het Hypo E and Splotched
1.1 Albino Striped Sinaloan
2.7 Striped Splotched Sinaloan
1.2 Poss Het T pos Sinaloan
1.2 T pos Sinaloan

My clean up crew is a regular old everyday Fla king and of course
my crew of box turtles. They love f/t pinkies.

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Greg Jackson