Baby care?

[kibakiba]

If you buy them in a large bulk they are a lot cheaper. Without the bulk pack I got (200), I wouldn't have food for my snakes. 200 has lasted me about 2 months with 12 snakes. I still have about 100 left. Most of my snakes eat more than one pinky per feeding. Mama eats 3, it used to be 5 but she as getting fat, snakey eats 1, he's too small to eat any more... Snap and Ember are getting larger than Mama, almost, and eat 2 a week. And, my 5 babies and 2 (almost) yearling eat about 1.5 pinkies between each other, that are cut up.

To keep the snakes healthier, or just to supplement their diet, perhaps you could save 5-10 dollars a month to pay for a bulk pack and shipping. I know it's expensive, but health wise, I find its worth it.

[Mommy2many]

Agreed. You can certainly offset cost by supplementing.

[ConcinusMan]

Got these today. (actually about twice as many) Alive this morning, arrived frozen this afternoon. Cost me a grand total of a smile and a handshake. No, actually, I had to bring out some of my garters and show them off, which was a pleasure anyway. Albinos were a big hit. There's a lot people out there (on the internet) that don't think of me as a "people person" but when it comes to face-to-face local people, networking via craigslist and sharing of mutual interests, face to face meetings and such, things happen. Good things. Like tons of free and fresh rodents. Free and/or very cheap "reptile accessories", etc. People just love to talk about their hobby with a real person and show off their collections. Goes both ways really. Everyone benefits. Human and snake alike. Just 4 of these ensured that every snake I have, got a fair share of rodents which will hold them over for days. Lovin' it.



With the rest, I think I'll fix up a pot of Jambalaya.

But seriously, even the babies less than one month old chowed on this stuff. (chop while still frozen) Every snake from 6 inches to 3 feet ate rodents today.

[infernalis]

I usually feed off several hundred assorted pinks, fuzzies and rat pups per month.

When I order 800 pinks at once from rodent pro, they work out at like 25 cents each.

I breed my own rats, so I have fresh rat pinks all the time for just the cost of grain to feed the rats with.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, these are rat pinks born a day or so ago. There's a handful of people I found on craigslist that breed their own and are willing to let me have the extras when they overproduce. So, these were considerably less than 25 cents each. They were free. Got a bunch more coming Friday.

[RedSidedSPR]

Lucky you.
I'll look into pinkies thanks

[RedSidedSPR]

GOT THE SNAKE!! Baby anerythristic. Pictures tomorrow (quit your whining).

Scott told me where to find guppies!! Very happy, getting concerned feeding minnows.

[infernalis]

Congratulations on your recent acquisition.

[guidofatherof5]

Congrats on your little scrub. Looking forward to seeing pics.
Good decision on the fish change.

[RedSidedSPR]

I'd been looking for guppies for loooong time, but couldn't find any. Figured Scott would know, and he did. Thanks Scott!!