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how long can frozen rodents be kept frozen???

I was thinking about ordering in bulk, but it would depend on how long I can keep them for.

Thanks
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Teresa
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3.0 Dogs (2.0 Chihuahuas, 1.0 Toy Poodle)
1.5 Cats
1.0 Cockatiel
1.0 Indonesian Blue tongue skink

Ball Pythons
0.1 100% Het Albino (Watson)
1.0 Pastel (Sweets)
0.1 Spider (Daisy)
1.0 Albino

I wouldn't keep them any longer than 1 year.

I was told 6 months before and if I buy in bulk for 4 snakes... there is NO WAY i can use them all in 6 months.. Maybe a year. I might see if I can find somebody to go in it with me.. I just don't know many people with several snakes haha.
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Teresa
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3.0 Dogs (2.0 Chihuahuas, 1.0 Toy Poodle)
1.5 Cats
1.0 Cockatiel
1.0 Indonesian Blue tongue skink

Ball Pythons
0.1 100% Het Albino (Watson)
1.0 Pastel (Sweets)
0.1 Spider (Daisy)
1.0 Albino

....bulk. If you figure out what your expected consumption is for six months and buy just that amount I bet you would still save money over buying a couple items at a time. Not to mention not having to go to the store. I am currently only feeding 10 snakes (6 balls and 4 corns) and I buy four months worth of food at a time. Even in those small quantities and accounting for shipping it is a pretty big savings over running to the local Petco. Just a thought.

Rob

The place that I buy from offers pretty cheap food. The problem is they don't always have everything that I need. Also, because everything is changing so much... they grow and i feed them bigger prey... that it makes it difficult to buy for them... Do you have any suggestions?
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Teresa
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3.0 Dogs (2.0 Chihuahuas, 1.0 Toy Poodle)
1.5 Cats
1.0 Cockatiel
1.0 Indonesian Blue tongue skink

Ball Pythons
0.1 100% Het Albino (Watson)
1.0 Pastel (Sweets)
0.1 Spider (Daisy)
1.0 Albino

Feed the larger snakes multiple prey items.

Example: You purchase a young BP just now starting to eat adult mice / rat crawlers. Buy a bulk bag of that size. When they start getting "too small" feed two items.

When you run out, upgrade to the next size and start over.

This is what I have been doing for my BPs and Kingsnakes with no problems. They don't get exponentially huge like you hear some people talk about, but they aren't small either.
I have a male '09 Pewter, 898 grams, I will be breeding this fall. I don't power feed, I was just lucky this guy never went off feed over the winter
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

Yea, I finally figured it out. I'm going to order enough so that I may not have to do that, but if worse comes to worse I can. Thank you so much for your help

I also have extras so if we get another snake, we have food available for it as well.
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Teresa
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3.0 Dogs (2.0 Chihuahuas, 1.0 Toy Poodle)
1.5 Cats
1.0 Cockatiel
1.0 Indonesian Blue tongue skink

Ball Pythons
0.1 100% Het Albino (Watson)
1.0 Pastel (Sweets)
0.1 Spider (Daisy)
1.0 Albino