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Price shopping

tress29

tress29

Bookworm
All the posts about ordering feeders online made me do a little window shopping when I stopped to get crickets today. Six pinkies was $10.99! OMG! I see online you can get them from .19 to .25 each, with a $100 order. That is so not happening, but made me realize it'd be worth the $5 admission to the local reptile show to get feeders! And of course getting to see all the lovely beasties!

Theresa in Indy
 
Online you also have to pay 35+ bucks for shipping.


Meh, those Arctic Mice fuzzies have been useful for me. My fuzzies turned bad so I HAD to get more, and wasn't wasting so much money to ship them again.
 
Does anyone know if the vendors sell smaller quantities than a 50 ct bag? How long would I need small pinks? Do you just feed two at a time to use them up, then move on to the next size? So much to learn...

Theresa in Indy
 
I dunno about vendors... No expos here.

If one pinky is no longer enough, feed two. Two not enough? Feed three. I've fed my corns four small items before and they handled it fine. :p
 
Mouse pinkies are getting too smal for my snake. Doubt that my petstore will have frozen fuzzies. Would it be good to feed rat pinkies as a next step?
 
The only place that doesn't kill you on shipping is The Mouse Factory. It's still bad, but not as bad, and you can get the smallest quantity of several sizes and not have to order again for a year, and the mice will be the best out there.
 
It depends on the size of the snake! I have one yearling who is on adults, and one who is on hoppers. So if you have a fast grower, no, and if you have a very slow grower, or in my case a snake that had a set-back (double regurge seven months ago) maybe yes, but doubtful.
 
Since he is on regular pinkies now I could order 50 large pinkies and 50 fuzzies. Either way it will be cheaper than buying whatever I need at the petstore. We will see how long I can keep the frozen mice hidden in our freezer from my mom. :)
 
You can fit a lot of frozen pinks and fuzzies in little vacuum sealable ziplocks, and put those in a very small Tupperware. They will keep a long time like that. You just want to eliminate exposure to air.
 
Typically even after you add on the shipping, then divide by the number of animals....they are STILL cheaper than buying locally. Other than petco's arctic mice....which are outrageously expensive, I can only buy from my local pet store. I think typically whenever they have a mouse or rat that gives birth, they just toss them in the bin in the freezer. The sizes vary WILDLY, they are dirty, and a pinky is STILL 99 cents. I'll stick with mail order, thanks!
 
Thank you guys for the advice so far. I really appreciate it. I just sent the mouse factory and email to see how much my order would be.
 
Actually, the best prices I found were at rodentpro.com.

The only problem is that they only sell by bags of 100 in the size I want. But, even after shipping, their price beats other places that sell smaller quantities. 100 peach fuzzies from rodent pro was cheaper than 50 peach fuzzies from any other place I saw.

And they seem okay to me. Isis loves them and is thriving on them.

Oh, and a bonus. Shipped frozen mice are packed in dry ice. That stuff is awesomely fun to play with. :D
 
I use Big Cheese out of Fort Worth. Their rates are comparable to rodentpro but their shipping is much cheaper. I ordered 50 small pinks and 50 large pinks and it came out to 44.85 total. That's roughly $0.45 per pink where my local store has them for $1.09 a piece.

Plus there is the awesome bonus of playing with the dry ice as someone else above said!
 
Oh. About feeding multiple smaller items.

1. Get a scale. You want to make sure your snake is getting the right amount of food. trying to eyeball the size of various prey might not be as accurate as you think.

2. Different ages of mouse have different nutritional value. Older mice have bones, which give calcium. Pinks have mostly cartilage. There may be other changes. Given that, I would say four small pinks do not equal one fuzzy in nutrition. If you want to feed many small prey items, I'd dip their butts in Nutribac to fortify them.
 
Nanci said:
You can fit a lot of frozen pinks and fuzzies in little vacuum sealable ziplocks, and put those in a very small Tupperware. They will keep a long time like that. You just want to eliminate exposure to air.
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What's the trick to that? Like with a food sealer? Do you have a link or instructions?

Theresa in Indy
 
I don't have one yet but when I get a Foodsaver machine I plan on sealing packets with my snakes weekly meals. Like the number and sizes needed for all of my snakes in one bag for one feeding day. It's not going to kill your snake to give multiples of one size to use them up, but when you can you really should make sure you buy the sizes needed. I will be shopping around in Dec. to put in an order. Running low on some sizes.
 
I think the obvious answer here is to get more snakes. That will justify buying a large quantity of mice.
 
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