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I am having trouble finding anyone within an hour that sells frozen mice. The other problem is that I only have one snake so ordering on the internet doesnt seem to make sense yet. My snake is an '03 so he is growing and I know ordering a bag of 100 fuzzies will not work. any suggestions from people who keep 1 or 2 snakes and how to get ahold of quality food? Do you think buying live and freezing them on my own is the only option? This just seems so expensive. Any suggestions would help.

JC

You could always find someone else in your area with corn snakes that orders online...and just work out some reasonable deal. (example...anyone in the baltimore area that orders online from xyz rodent company). If you find someone that orders from a place you like or heard good things about, than you can maybe pay them a little for shipping and you'll already know the company's prices so you won't get screwed.

Usually live pinkies at a pet store are more expensive, at least the mom&pop pet place near me is expensive. I have a friend that has only one snake and he had the same problem, so I offered to give him 50 pinkies/50 fuzzies from the company I placed large online orders with. I even offered to store them since I have a special chest freezer just for my snakes food (I don't like the idea of frozen mice next to my frozen food)LOL.

My friend ended up finding a pet store near his home that carried frozen mice...I was real unsure about the quality but it was his snake/his decision...and it ended up probably being a good choice since his snake's growth far surpassed mine maybe partially to higher quality mice (or possibly even genetics..who knows?!)

Anyway, the main point that I wanted to get across is to NOT skimp on food for your reptiles...its very important to get quality and not risk problems associated with malnutrition that would go undetected until to late. How do you tell rodent quality? Probably many ways, but I think it has to do with the food that the breeder feeds the mice, as well as the conditions of their facility.

Feel free to email me if you want to know who I use as I did a lot of research on it after I had a few batches of bad mice from pet stores and reptile shows.

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Do you have any friends that also have snakes? I also only have one snake. I found someone with two snakes and another with one and we usually split an order of 100 mice. The company I use, will mix and match sizes within that 100, which works for us. I didn't really have a problem with the quality of the petstore frozen mice, but $1.29 for a fuzzy was a bit much for me. Good luck!

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1.0 Normal corn, "Mulder"

1.1 cockatiels "Farley" and "Snickerdoodle"
and 1.0 mutt "Logan"

You can buy the 100 fuzzies. When he can eat two fuzzies, thaw two. When he can eat three, thaw three. And so on.

some companies don't have minimum orders. rodentpro.com doesn't - I used to order 50 fuzzies at a time. Now I order 25 hoppers and 25 adult mice 'cause I have two snakes, and it's *still* much cheaper than using pet store live mice.

A lot of times it can still be cheaper to buy frozen over the internet even if you have to throw 1/2 of them away.
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1.0 normal corn snakes
3.6 normals het stripe and snow corn snakes
0.1 amels corn snakes
1.0 striped amels corn snakes
0.1 striped snows corn snakes
1.0 lavenders het opal corn snakes
0.1 opals corn snakes
1.1 blizzards corn snakes
1.1 pewters corn snakes
0.1 boa constrictors
1.1 western hognose

Is there a Petco near you? They sell frozen. I usually buy from them and have had no problems. I don't like to buy in bulk fearing they will get freezer burnt.

They won't get freezer burnt if you buy the mice from a company that vacuum seals them individualy, a la The Mouse Factory. Rodent Pro does not do this, unfortunately.

another idea is to see if you can find a herp society to join, they usually belong to feeder programs where they buy in bulk and pass the savings on to members.