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crickets ok to give a corn?

Another thing you may not have thought of is that....

I know this will sound strange but... you had said you went to a new place to get the most recent mice.... were those mice by chance a different color?

I have a snake that will NOT under any circumstances eat anything but white rat pups.... I use to feed nothing but mice and then I had gotten some spotted mice in a frozen shipment one time and I honestly think she would have starved ... I tried everything before I figured out what was going on...

now I only feed her white rat pups... and she doesn't miss a meal!

Just a thought...
 
TBurkeIII said:
a good method i use with my larger animals that eat collosal rats is i stun the rat...not exactly the most humane and friendly method in some peoples opinion but it saves my snakes from getting chewed on while constricting them.

i also use this method when i dont have frozen stuff. (i have more trouble getting f/z when i need um. LOL

i just knock the rat out a little bit. use your imagination on how to do it. that way i know the snake isn't going to get hurt during the feeding process.

Good Luck!
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yes some of the mice i had bought were spotted. the usual ones i buy are always solid white, and the guy at the petstore had suggested the same thing to me as he had saved up all his live white mouse to give to a lady whose snake would only eat white live mice. The live mice i had bought were actually brown/black. But she took em down just fine. So indeed it could be that she wont eat the f/t non-white ones. I guess time will tell.
 
I would also like to add that the nutritional values of crickets (arthropods) versus whole mammals or birds is so different. Corn snakes are not equipped to feed on insects. The calcium content of most insects-especially crickets is so low. And to expect growing juviniles to feed on a diet of insects is absurd and ignorant. Any pet shop that would do so needs to be educated.
 
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