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How difficult is it to switch ball pythons from LIVE to Frozen Thawed

Depends on the snake....sometimes not hard at all and sometimes will take it right away.
Travis
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LAIR OF DRAGONS

LOL...yea...only one person can answer that...
and that's the snake.....
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........JY

LOL ok. ill just keep trying then!!

I had hundreds...adult balls...most would not eat frozen...
I didn't try....too timely....
live...20 years....1 baby hurt and killed...just 1...

trick...frozen...leave in fridge all night...thaws...then set into hot water in a bucket you do not use for anything else...
then?...dry with towel..(snake room towel)...then if it doesn't eat it...hair dryer...makes it hotter than the water...wiggle it in their face...pull it away...

DO NOT touch the ball.....and use long tongs or tweezers....they need to not know you are there...

or throw it in and wait...reheat after half hour, try again....

.....I never refroze anything
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........JY

i have to agree with the other info posted. i switched mine to f/t and my females were all the way up to small/med f/t rats. now..... tw females won't take anything except for live mice! lol little boogers. at least they are still eating for me.

i have kept and raised my share of snakes over the years as a hobbyist. i think that bp's take the cake for being finicky feeders. one of those times when i am grateful to just have a small handful of projects going so i have the extra time to put into them. the variety of the morphs and colors is still what blows me away and makes it seem worth while...

All mine eat live. Never even had one get bitten. All of mine tend to bag the rodents as soon as they hit the tub. Haha.
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If all the beasts were gone,
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