Frogs

[SpyrotheGartersnake]

1. i found him on my trip to maine during the first week of maine and thanks i'll get him to eat rosy minnows for lets say a month? and he hadn't eat for 3 weeks

2.where we found him there were frogs,toads field mice,minnows,worms,slugs,and small birds


thanks for the advice!


i'll try that scenting the pinky mice James,

[infernalis]

isn't it cruel to the pinkies that get frozen?

Pinkies are euthanized humanely prior to freezing by gassing them with CO2

I tore into a guy on kingsnake who admitted to placing live pinkies in the freezer. The following several posts on that thread were all in agreement.

[jitami]

Pinkies are euthanized humanely prior to freezing by gassing them with CO2
I tore into a guy on kingsnake who admitted to placing live pinkies in the freezer. The following several posts on that thread were all in agreement.

I've actually heard that freezing pinkies is humane? That they have some ability to hold their breath to avoid being smothered by mum, and that the CO2 just isn't effective?

Anyway, yeah, Spyro, if he'll eat the rosy reds then you can start scenting pinkies with the rosy reds and get him switched over. It worked well for my elegans, but I've heard they'll eat anything

[crzy_kevo]

well its just too bad i cant get those certain frogs that don't die when they are in a deep freeze but i also do not have the stuff needed the euthanize the frogs first besides they would have a slow torturouse death in the snakes if they were fed live anyway

[infernalis]

Touché' and very true - the pot calling the kettle black

[crzy_kevo]

besides if i don't freeze them first there is also a chance that they could pass on parasites to the snakes not to mention i don't feel like buying them crickets to eat so they would have starved so either way freezing was the best option

[drache]

I may have mentioned this before
all of the snakes I get from Scott Felzer feed on rosies
some of them I can switch sooner, but many end up eating minnows until they can handle an entire small pinky
I estimate that they eat minnows for close to half a year and I never had had a problem - never
I do try to switch them asap
but trust me - even several months of eating minnows is not likely to hurt your snake