The $50 pinkies

[drache]

maybe for them The Chipmunks would be easier to relate to - or with?

[CrazyHedgehog]

so how many snakes does that set-up feed?

we had over 100 snakes in the summer, lots of small ones...

we have over 50 now..

havent had to buy mice since we started...but I also suppliment with trout.

[CrazyHedgehog]

I could keep mice like that for about 4 months a year, but that would mean that I'd have to gas the adults every autumn.

why?

[Stefan-A]

Because I have access to a shed that's warm enough during the summer months, but not during the winter and I can't keep them indoors, because of other people's allergies, the smell the mice produce and lack of space.

[CrazyHedgehog]

it gets damn cold here in winter ice and snow etc... we have insulated the shed and have a small greenhouse tube heater just to keep the chill off.

[Lori P]

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.

So now the top is weighted down... geeez!!! I've already got to head back across the world to get more pinkies today, I really don't need her eating my potential parents!! LOL

Poor Evie, she gave me this look of Whaaaaaaat??? I was JUST LOOKING!!! LOL

HEY-- another question-- does anyone have those African soft furred rats??? Any input on them as breeders/feeders?? I know they are the prey of choice for balls, but wondering about the pinkies/fuzzies for garters??

[Stefan-A]

I can imagine the surprise.

[drache]

cats . . .
I'm learning all about kitten proofing myself - and kitten consciousness
recently I had to deal with a tub of very fast feeder roaches dumped in the kitchen, where I had just set them down for a moment to answer the phone
big mistake

[tikichick]

LMAO!!! What a good girl! At least she didn't eat any

My kitten knocked over my cricket tub not too long ago and I'm still finding refugees, lol.

I'm on a local reptile forum and one of our members is looking for African soft furred rats. I'll ask him what the appeal is.

[tikichick]

Here's what he said, "They have larger litters, twice as often as mice, and the are Ball Pythons natural food source in Africa. So if you have a picky eater, chances are, that they won't refuse an ASFR."