Unexpected sad news

[ConcinusMan]

They tell you not to let your kids eat too much fish because of mercury levels and stuff like that.I wouldn't risk it. Rodent pro doesn't have a minimum order. You can order as little as 2 bags. You pay 30 shipping...

Wrong. Shipping to my zip is $52 on a $19 order of 100 mice. (1 bag) It ends up being only slightly cheaper than I'm paying a the pet store. sure, in the long run, if I want to keep half a year's worth or more of mice in the freezer that long I could save a little. Only 2 bags you say? Even if I wanted to feed my snakes exclusively on mice, which I don't, I'd have to freeze a year's worth if I ordered 2 bags.

I'm just sayin' at this point, the snakes (and numbers of them) I have right now, it's just not desirable to order from them. Perhaps if I had more snakes, and a higher demand for rodents in the future, I would definitely place an order.

[ConcinusMan]

Oh hey, I figured out how to solve that problem...

Get more garter snakes!

[mb90078]

Any reptile shows near you? I'm in the same conundrum with frozen pinkies, that if I buy the small packs from the petstores, I'll be paying upwards of a dollar each, and if I buy online, I won't be able to buy in enough bulk to offset shipping, plus it will still be too many. But what I'm considering doing is going to a reptile show and buying from a rodent vendor there. I'm thinking the prices and quantities should fall somewhere inbetween.

[mustang]

rodentpro.buy 6 months worth at a time.you'll save money.

mom says no buying mice online.

[ConcinusMan]

I don't think you a hundred anyway do you?

[Mommy2many]

Wrong. Shipping to my zip is $52 on a $19 order of 100 mice. (1 bag) It ends up being only slightly cheaper than I'm paying a the pet store. sure, in the long run, if I want to keep half a year's worth or more of mice in the freezer that long I could save a little. Only 2 bags you say? Even if I wanted to feed my snakes exclusively on mice, which I don't, I'd have to freeze a year's worth if I ordered 2 bags.

I ordered 2 bags of mice from Stephi and paid about the price you have mentioned here for shipping and the mice themselves. I had, at the time, 12 snakes, 9 young and 3 adults. I can tell you that those mice lasted maybe 2 months. That was 200 mice. They were the small pinkies, so maybe you would be ordering a larger size. Still, all in all, I believe you would be going thru them faster than you think

[ConcinusMan]

Perhaps if I fed them mostly or nothing but mice but I only have two that really care for mice. The rest I have to get them going with fish and slip in a scented fuzzy a couple of times of month.

[Mommy2many]

Yeah, that would make a difference. All of mine will eat pinkies (except my Dekayi)

[kibakiba]

How's the girl doing now, Richard? You have to keep us updated, you pest!

[ConcinusMan]

Well I haven't seen her that bad again. She seems fine and ate well yesterday but she has a bit of a tremble to her head when she moves. At this point as long as she keeps eating and seems alert, I'll just watch and see what happens.

No sign of this in any other snakes.