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Originally Posted by Nanci
Well, you can continue to feed double fuzzies for a while, or you can cut the head off one of the hoppers and see what it weighs in at! A couple meals of headless hoppers and he should be nearing the top end of the hopper-feeder weight range (of the snake) and should be good then with the 12 gram hoppers, and then you can continue right on with the > 12g hoppers when he goes to weaneds. They don't stay on hoppers long at all. Six "hoppers" should take him through that stage.
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I honestly wouldn't have ever thought of that. I was hoping I'd never have to decapitate a mouse, but I'd rather do that than buy more fuzzies.
How do you go about cutting the heads off, though? Can it be done frozen? I imagine that would be much cleaner. I honestly don't know if I have any implement that would work. Are the spinal cords pretty easy to sever?
I might have to make my boyfriend do it, lol. I've dissected a human body and yet I'm squeamish about decapitating a frozen mouse. What in the world is wrong with me?