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bryden- wrote Great video man! On average how much does it cost to feed a snake of that size each month? I will assume that it isnt too much since they only eat a couple times?

I purchase the rabbits and such online... It's usually around $150 for everything with shipping, but it can easily be stretched out over a year. If I were to buy them one at a time from a petco, it would be +$200 at least... Plus you cant buy frozen rabbits in store.

I know you wouldn't feed your snake rats that had diseases, but are the rats checked out before being sold? or how does that work.

Honestly I have no idea, but thats a good question.. Never even looked into how the are killed. Don't think I want to know. ha.

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LicketyxxSplit wrote

bryden- wrote Great video man! On average how much does it cost to feed a snake of that size each month? I will assume that it isnt too much since they only eat a couple times?

I purchase the rabbits and such online... It's usually around $150 for everything with shipping, but it can easily be stretched out over a year. If I were to buy them one at a time from a petco, it would be +$200 at least... Plus you cant buy frozen rabbits in store.

I know you wouldn't feed your snake rats that had diseases, but are the rats checked out before being sold? or how does that work.

Honestly I have no idea, but thats a good question.. Never even looked into how the are killed. Don't think I want to know. ha.

For large breeders, they normally use nitrogen which is a completely safe and pain free way of killing. They just put them into large air tight containers and fill the containers with nitrogen, since we breathe roughly 70% nitrogen in each breathe as it is, our body ignores it. So, when you are breathing pure nitrogen, you just get light-headed and fall asleep and die from the lack of oxygen, and experience no discomfort. This is counter to using things like carbon dioxide (which is unfortunately used just as widely as nitrogen) where it is a toxin in our body and dying from that can be painful and cause the animal to panic. Smaller breeders might just break the mouses neck (fresh-kills) or just freeze the mouse alive which are very poor methods. Most mice are (should be) kept in relatively clean conditions during their lives, and so parasites aren't terribly common. Even in the event there are parasites using the mouse as an intermediate host, most parasites are horribly ineffective at infecting a cold-blooded animal, since nutrients are low, and the animals temperatures range daily and so the parasite would have to be adapted to a range of temperatures instead of just one (ie. the human tapeworm prefers 98.6 degrees fahrenheit). Freezing the mice also reduces the chances of anything surviving. So basically the mice should be safe, and the biggest risk is going to be either physical damage to the snake, or the consumption of decaying flesh that could harbor bacteria that could infect the digestive tract of the snake.

I'm not moaning about you feeding your snake rats, as I personally keep reticulated pythons. So, I have to feed rabbits and the occassional piglet. But, you and I both know you didn't have to feed Live. Literally every snake on this planet will happily accept FT (Frozen Thawed). I'm not whining I'm just saying I hope this was just to get a video and not a regular occurance.

JV wrote I'm not moaning about you feeding your snake rats, as I personally keep reticulated pythons. So, I have to feed rabbits and the occassional piglet. But, you and I both know you didn't have to feed Live. Literally every snake on this planet will happily accept FT (Frozen Thawed). I'm not whining I'm just saying I hope this was just to get a video and not a regular occurance.

I stated in my main post that i stick with frozen... shes maybe eatin 10 or so live in the 4 years ive had her... She's taken all of them with ease, no problems. And you are VERY wrong... a lot of snakes are strict live feeders