The $50 pinkies

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

i know its terrible sometimes mine do that too, i would feed it to curious

Ok. I gave it some warm milk and it has washed its little face and is falling asleep in my hand. Not sure if cow's milk will be digested, but at least for right now it's not suffering!! Oy... darn you Desdemona! LOL

[Lori P]

... Or Reed, he may be more hungry as he only ate 2 minnows yesterday. Curious ate a large pinky and a large minnow. Let me go try that tho and see. My other thought is Eddie Lizzard, my skink... but he hasn't woken up yet.

[Loren]

oh, more photos
looks like a lot of work every week
How many snakes do you have to feed?

It takes about 1 and a half hours every weekend to clean all the cages,feed, water, and sort out extras for feeding, and then vacuum the floor. I keep getting faster.
The key is to have a good system. I set up a makeshift table in the room, pull the mouse tubs 1 at a time, and put the mice in a bucket while I change the bedding. I set a trash can, new bedding, and food, all at my feet.
I have an extra tub for the rats. I fill it, change the rats over, add feed, and slide the drawer in.
I do have to feed the rats every other day or so-but thats only 6 tubs, and I top off the waters about halfway through the week. I Just use a large water pitcher for that, with a bucket to catch my spills, so I can pour fast and careless.


I have just over 60 snakes at last count, but also recently started to sell extras to a buddy.
He has close to 200 snakes, so I actually might need to increase my colony- if I choose to be his sole supplier.
I kill off most of the rat babies at 20-55 grams or so(2-4 weeks old), rather than having to raise mice for much longer to get that size. That allows me to use most of the mice as hoppers or smaller, and not use extra "grow-out" tubs. Not sure if I am actually better off that way or not, but it what I do for now. I'm still working on getting some of them to take rats, as well. Rats are nice for gopher snakes and such, but I'm also using them for my corns, and trying to get my kings on them.
I do raise a few rats to medium size for a couple of my snakes and several of my buddy's snakes.

[krystalirelan@southslope.]

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Omg! I got up this morning and on my way to the coffee pot, peeked in as always into the room with the mouse tank... and could not figure out what I was seeing... turned out to be my &%#^ cat Evie INSIDE THE MOUSE TANK... lol, she had knocked the lid off and was sitting in the middle of the darn tank watching them!!! Just... watching them. They were in their little house, both of them staring back at her.

when we raised mice a similar thing happened except my dog got the lid off and bit off the head of our male. Unfortunatlly my daughter found it.

[CrazyHedgehog]

Omg! I got up this morning and on my way to the coffee pot, peeked in as always into the room with the mouse tank... and could not figure out what I was seeing... turned out to be my &%#^ cat Evie INSIDE THE MOUSE TANK... lol, she had knocked the lid off and was sitting in the middle of the darn tank watching them!!! Just... watching them. They were in their little house, both of them staring back at her.

that brings really funny pictures to mind! laughed loads when I read that!

[Rook]

jeeze I am not used to the whole "feeder" rodent set up lol. I breed Gerbils for Rook, but my Gerbils are also pets, and I am breeding the Gerbils for colour and temperment, and simpley skimming a bunch of babies off of each litter for Rook lol. we are only the begining stages right now though, eventually we will start taking entire litters but right now we are carefully selecting what we want. pretty quickly though we will have more pairs going and we will be able to take more pinkies from the litters lol

[Lori P]

So, today I had to make another trip around the world to get live pinks for Des. However, they started dieing off on their own within an hour of being here. I left them all together in her tank tho, and get this: she just came out and ate one of the DEAD ones. Even tho one is still alive and moving.

So WHAT THE HECK??!! She can eat a recently deceased pink but not a previously frozen one?

Do they make these rules up on a daily basis? Just to drive me NUTS??? LOL!!!!!

[Lori P]

Yup, she ate all of them. What a BRAT. Her eyes are blue, too, so I'm impressed she came out and ate.

[adamanteus]

That's great news, Lori. Maybe she'll start taking frozen/thawed now.

[Lori P]

But she LEFT the f/t one!!!!! LOL!!!