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Where can you buy the stuff they eat to give them a balanced diet? I've been looking on the net and I don't see anyone who sells frozen feeder amphibians, fish.

What do experienced keepers feed their snakes and where do they procure the food?

Thanks!

catch some minnows or frogs from a local stream, but freeze them before feeding to the snake.
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

you don't have to freeze them. i live next to a major highway, so i have a large ditch that is always full of water, minnows, crayfish, and huge bullfrogs. i just get a large dipping net with a long handle, and i scoop some minnows out, deposit them in a bucket partially filled with water, and carry the bucket up to the snakes and let the minnows flop around in their cage. it's pretty fun to watch them pounce on the minnows. but you have to watch them, because every now and then, two snakes will start eating the same minnow, and the bigger snake will accidentally suffocate or crush or even eat the smaller snake. if that happens, just grab the snakes and thump on the bigger snakes head until he lets go. but that's only happened once or twice with me. for bigger snakes, you will have to find a bigger body of water to get shad and other fish.

For a WC Nerodia sipedon, would American toads be a good food item? I won't have the snake for very long, but I'd like to get it feeding.
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0.1 Banded California kingsnake - Zorro
1.0 Betta fish - Billy
0.0.3 White Cloud Fish
1.0 RES - Chopstick
0.1 Australian Shepherd - Jet
0.1 Domestic Shorthair Mix Cat - Pirate

WC toads, frogs, or fish for a WC Nerodia, YES,go for it
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp