Quote Originally Posted by tspuckler View Post

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but thiaminase can be denatured by heating the fish to 80 degrees C in water for 5 minutes.

Tim
That's very interesting, if someone was in a bad situation with feeder availability for some time, this should be regarded, as well as B1 supplementation (say moderate amounts but frequent, over a period of months?) i guess this way the thiaminase present in the garter would eventually ''fade out'', which can take a good while and the snake would have some B1 to absorb over time, given the heating trick does a very good job at denaturing the enzyme in the subsequent feeders...food for thought!