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BTW ty all who answered my question earlier....I have another question for you all now lol...I'm tring to gather as much info as possible....My question is where is the best place to buy frozen feeders online???...I really dont have a place around here to buy them.

Same thing here i am looking to get my first corn snake soon and i was looking into feeders. The online shops seem good but they have minimum orders of 50 or 100 and with one snake that is way too much. Some do let you mix size to get the minimum order, but how long is it safe to keep the feeders before they should no longer be fed to the snake? And with a hatchling snake (what i am looking to get) if i order 50 or 100 about how many of each size should i get or just get them smaller and feed more than one as snake grows?

The Mouse factory has great service, reasonable prices and top quality packaging of their animals. they are all vacuum packed for better shelf life.

Rodent Pro also has great service, cheap prices and their animals are bigger then the comparable size on the mouse factory. The differance is that they don't vacuum pack their aniamls so they tend to get freezer burn after a while.
Rodent Pro's prices are better and the animals are bigger, you just have to order in smaller quanities due to the packing, and less shelf life.

Both places have always been great to me in way of service.
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

Do they individually package the mice so it is easy to thaw one at a time as needed? I found a place that does that but it is nearly double the price. The sites you listed don't specify if they are individually packaged. Thanks

Yea same question PA had...plus how long can I keep the vacuume packed stuff in my freezer before it is unsafe for my snake?

keep in mind that a major cost in buying frozen feeders is shipping,the dry ice,special packageing and over night air freight. (unless you live near a supplier of feeders) i have been told that vacuum packed feeders frozen at zero degrees or lower are good for at least 2 years.once opened there fresh for 3-6 months,depending on how there repackaged.the last time i ordered the shipping charge was $27.00.so it's less expensive to order larger quantities,that lowers the cost per rodent.if you only have one snake that won't last,there like potato chips you can't have just one.

oh wow...ty for the info....this was an extreme help to me...I'm afraid fi a do get a corn....it will be my only one (at least for awhile=)...my husband says NO more animals after I get this one LOL

No neither site that I mentioned packages mice on an individual basis, at least not that I know of, I would have to assume that it would at least double, if not triple the price if they did, with the added time, labor and packageing costs. If you only need one mouse per week, then frozen rodents are porbably not for you, I use somewhere between 40-50 per-week during non-baby season and a couple hundred per week (mostly pinkies) during baby season, so shelf life and small packaging was never an issue for me. At one mouse per week you would be better off with just a live pet store mouse or maybe even a small 1.3 colony of your own breeder mice and raise your own. I did that for years, before the need for rodents became larger.
good luck
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

I found out theres a local pet store...that might sell frozen ones....Because thats all they feed to their snakes...that also where I was thinking about getting a snake...because I want one that is used to feeding on pre-killed frozen food...Killing a mouse is not an opition for me....I dont think I could ever bring myself to do that.