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Old 07-01-2010, 04:25 PM   #7
medusacoils
A corn can get all the nutrition it needs from a diet of mice only. Stick to Frozen Thawed. The risk of feeding live is too high. Plus you can keep frozen feeders in bulk safely in the freezer. That cuts down on costs and time. The feeders may lose a little nutrition by being frozen, but not enough to affect the health of the snake. Freezing also reduces the risk of infecting the snake with parasites. Freezing may not kill all of them, but will kill most if the rodent is infected.

Stay away from feeding worms, crickets or feeder fish. These are not part of their normal diet. Probably wouldn't eat it anyway.

If you do decide to supplement their diet with some reptile vitamins, do it sparingly. Maybe once every couple of months. This is a case of "less is more".

Wayne