Mice On Ice

[cowboyman13]

All I have used for feeders so far was the Mice on Ice. I really like the product and the fact that they are packed seprate in a plastic contioner that holds six mice individually. The local Pet co where i buy them sells them for about 11 bucks a pack thats about 1.49 a piece. I can buy them direct from miceonice.com for about 1 buck a piece thats with shipping figured in. Problem is min order is 100 mice. Right now wrangler is eating pinkies. He is about 14 to 16 inches long (hard to stretch him out). I feel like he is about ready to move to fuzzies. He can hold down two pinkies no problem. and one doesent seem to be enough because hes out hunting for more to eat in as little as a day after i feed him. I have never actually seen a fuzzie so i dont know for sure if he could get it down. Next problem is. How long would he go on fuzzies before hes ready for the next size up. You can mix and match so i could get 50 fuzzies or 25 and make the rest hoppers but i dont know how to predict how long he will eat one before moving to the next. What do yall think? Yall got any ideas on how to correctly split up that order as to not end up with to many left overs wrangler might out grow.

 

[mbdorfer]

Hey man! problem solved easily, pick up another young one in Tampa this weekend........lol.
Seriously, sounds like he can handle small fuzzies. It is difficult to guess the growth rate, some take off right away and some are slow growers. If you figure 1 fuzzy a week, 52 weeks in a year, well I would definitely split it up.
Surely in a year he'll be ready for at least hoppers. Biggest problem I see is keeping that many mice frozen for that length of time. If you are only going to keep 1 snake, 100 frozen mice of any size is not a wise purchase. With only 1 snake, I would just be buying pinks or fuzzies at the pet shop one at a time, that way you are buying as he grows, so to speak. I'd get another snake or two :cheers:

 

[cowboyman13]

I gonna look this weekend and see if there are any that catch my eye. My wife wants a blizzard. But will see what happens. I agree with you maybe the extra 50 cents is worth not going through the hassle of trying to keep a 100 mice fresh for a year or two. I fed him two pinkies tonight and in 30 min of him eating them you really couldnt see a bulge. I am gonna get some fuzzies for the next feed.

 

[mbdorfer]

Honestly, I've never fed frozen/thawed, so I don't know how long they'll keep in the freezer. I'll be at the show on Saturday with my daughters. Like I said before, I'll wear a black T shirt with "enterprise boxing" on it. So feel free to say howdy :cheers:

 

[mrweaw]

I have never done mice on ice...I'm a die hard Rodent Pro customer. I just got 50 Jumbo and 250 adult mice for $208...thats about $0.69 each and when you get smaller ones they are even cheaper each. I have always been happy with their quality and the shipments always end up getting here a day early which I think is great. Just something to think about...but look around, you might find something that works better for you :crazy02:

Take care and good luck!

Erin

 

[MichaelBoyko]

Just a thought, if you're worried about the fuzzies you could use a razor to slice four cuts across the back of the f/t fuzzy. I read that it should make the transition easier! Because the skin is hard to digest.

 

[Rosebear]

Right now wrangler is eating pinkies. He is about 14 to 16 inches long (hard to stretch him out). I feel like he is about ready to move to fuzzies. He can hold down two pinkies no problem. and one doesent seem to be enough because hes out hunting for more to eat in as little as a day after i feed him. I have never actually seen a fuzzie so i dont know for sure if he could get it down.

Let me see if I can help you out there...I left a picture in this thread comparing a good sized pinkie to a fuzzy....Pinkie -v- Fuzzy
My snake is 22 inches long now, weighs 29 gms. and is still munching those pinkies. I just ordered a mixed batch from Big Cheese Rodent Factory, 50 pinkies and 50 fuzzies. Legoless is eating 2 pinkies twice a week at this point, but he's not quite happy with trying to down a fuzzy yet. It's still a bit on the big side for him.

 

[cowboyman13]

Well one thing I noticed last night while looking into the mice on ice is that the mice on ice I buy at Pet co are from a differnt company (T-Rex) than the ones at miceonice.com (zoo something). I can say that the product from T-Rex is very high quality product. What scares me form ordering from some of the other venders are the fact that you end up with a bunch of mice frozen together in a bag wheter it be vacum packed or not the mice are bound to stick together in a big ol ball or brick of frozen mice. Where the product i use now has each mouse packed individually in its own little compartment. You just pop one out when your ready to feed.

I have heard the debates between F/T and live feeding. Is there a danger of bringing home a live mouse and it having mites and passing them on to your snake. Or is it a diferent kind of mite.

 

[PtDnsr]

What scares me form ordering from some of the other venders are the fact that you end up with a bunch of mice frozen together in a bag wheter it be vacum packed or not the mice are bound to stick together in a big ol ball or brick of frozen mice. Where the product i use now has each mouse packed individually in its own little compartment. You just pop one out when your ready to feed.

We just got an order in from Rodentpro and not only was it a day early, nothing was stuck together. My boyfriend and I have started vacuum packing into smaller quantities (obviously we're not going to need 100 fuzzies at one time - bags of 20 work much nicer). Even the small pinks I ordered for my dad were frozen individually and not stuck together.

I have always been happy with their quality and the shipments always end up getting here a day early which I think is great.

They are great. We got the e-mail saying they'd been shipped and then two hours later they showed up at our door.

~Katie

 

[mbdorfer]

I have heard the debates between F/T and live feeding. Is there a danger of bringing home a live mouse and it having mites and passing them on to your snake. Or is it a diferent kind of mite.

I've been feeding live for over 20 yrs and never had an issue with it. In all this time, the only mite problem I had was with a WC king.
When your at a pet shop, look at the mice cages and see if they are being maintained. I've passed up a few in my time.........lol

 

[cowboyman13]

MBdorfer your not far from where i am at. I am over by USF in temple terrace. Around here no one sells feeders. Except Ande's pets in the universty mall on fowler. Can you suggest some good shops around are area. I got wrangler over in brandon. There is a real nice shop called creature castle actually there is two one on the main road and then one down by the Walmart. Both have the same owner and name. They really have healty Corns but didnt really know hatch dates or sex. But i have seen alot of good looking corns and kings in both those shops.

 

[mbdorfer]

MBdorfer your not far from where i am at. I am over by USF in temple terrace. Around here no one sells feeders. Except Ande's pets in the universty mall on fowler. Can you suggest some good shops around are area. I got wrangler over in brandon. There is a real nice shop called creature castle actually there is two one on the main road and then one down by the Walmart. Both have the same owner and name. They really have healty Corns but didnt really know hatch dates or sex. But i have seen alot of good looking corns and kings in both those shops.

The best place I can think of that's not too terribly far from you is Herps Hobby Shop in Oldsmar. They are breeders that are open to the public. Got my creamscicle from them. I believe they sell feeders as well and a few supplies. Bob and Russ are both good guys over there. They are behind the Flea Market off Race Track Road. 485 Douglas Rd. Unit A Oldsmar 813-925-0041. They will also be at the show. :cheers:

 

[Rosebear]

...you end up with a bunch of mice frozen together in a bag wheter it be vacum packed or not the mice are bound to stick together in a big ol ball or brick of frozen mice. Where the product i use now has each mouse packed individually in its own little compartment. You just pop one out when your ready to feed.

Obviously, from the pictures, I've been feeding the same product you have, and I've been reasonably content (until the last package of pinkies I bought...where I learned that T Rex perceives anything without whiskerings to be "pinkies." I got itty bitty tiny prey items in the most recent package, where the former have all been enough to fill the "cells" in the package. NOT THESE). Additionally, when I bought a package of "fuzzies" I anticipated infant mice that were "fuzzy"...not fully haired. I seriously believed when I opened the package that the package was filled with a size more popularly known as "hoppers." Maybe mine is an off-package. That not withstanding, I paid for a product I fully believed to be representative of the size on the package.

Today, my first shipment from one of the bulk vendors arrived. I ordered 50 large pinkies (after all, at the size T-Rex represents as a "fuzzy", I'm going to be feeding pinkies for quite awhile longer....) and 50 fuzzies. They arrived within 48 hours, fully frozen in their cryovac bags (50 in each bag). With minimal thawing, I was able to package off my pinkies in weekly bags (4 to a bag), and there was no thawing of the "fuzzies" which were happily what I thought a fuzzy should be! The fuzzies are about half again as large as one of the large pinkies and "fuzzy," not wholly haired. I'm delighted! I'm sorry I didn't order an entire hundred fuzzies, but...who's to know. And the best news...for what you're paying for the T-Rex Mice on Ice, you can reap benefits quickly by purchasing in bulk. You're paying about $11 for a package of 6... Including shipping, I ultimately paid 50 cents per feeder item...or $3 per half dozen.

You've just bought your corn...and it's 14-16 inches...do yourself a major favor...buy a 50-50 order. You'll save so much money in the long run if you can put the $50 together up front. If you can't...perhaps you can find someone to split an order with you?

I've been feeding Legoless 2 pinkies twice a week (W and Sun.). That's roughly $6 a week, via PetCo/T-Rex...or...$8 from my local pet store's bulk bag - -they sock me $2 each....Regardless of size or viability....live adults are the same price as frozen pinkies. I'm so jazzed to get this order and find the product as such great quality....end of commercial.