Does anyone use gerbils as feeders and is there any downside to doing so?
Reptile & Amphibian Forums
Welcome to kingsnake.com's message board system. Here you may share and discuss information with others about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements, permits and licenses, and more. Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the oldest and largest systems on the internet.
Gerbils as feeders??
a2zgraphix
Jun 28, 2003 06:11 PM
Replies (4)
East_Texas_Ratz
Jun 28, 2003 06:20 PM
Gerbils tend to "spoil" the snake. Once they eat them, some snakes won't eat anything else. This can get kinda costly, and gerbils dont have near the litter size, or breed near as often as mice or rats.
Danyelle
savana_man
Jun 28, 2003 06:33 PM
another point is that you pay close to $7 for a gerbil and $.99 for a mouse or $2 dollars for a rat (which are hard to find in alabama for me...LOL!)
-----
a2zgraphix
Jun 28, 2003 09:30 PM
The reason I ask is because my daughter started off with a pair of gerbils and..well we have a mess of them now!! We gave what we could away, traded some to the local pet store and still have more left. I have seperated the male from the females to stop the breeding but if I figured if my snakes were able to eat the gerbils witout it causing health problems I would reintroduce the male to the females and let nature take its course.
verve
Jun 30, 2003 07:08 AM
don't try gerbils.. your snake will get hooked onto them. my ball pythons refused to eat any other thing after i gave them gerbils only once.. and i'm spending a lot on food now..
