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Thinking about having a small mouse colony

Feed ASF only if your snakes take F/T NEVER leave an ASF live with your snake.
ASF are alot more aggresive than mice and will harm or even kill your corn!
 
MarcS74 said:
Feed ASF only if your snakes take F/T NEVER leave an ASF live with your snake.
ASF are alot more aggresive than mice and will harm or even kill your corn!
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Marc - Thanks for the advice. I was wondering about that. I got another sorta rescue corn, that I was told will only eat live rat (smaller ones) - and that you just have to throw the rat in the tank and then not watch, as the corn is shy and if watched too much, will constrictt but not eat the rat. I'm wondering if I can get it to f/t rat or mice. Another project I didn't need. I'm thinking of trying to get it to fresh killed ASF.
 
Sry I should have mentioned not to feed live asf but think a rat bite would be the equivalent. I feed frozen thawed co2 As for the asf in my experience putting a uv light on them on a timer really helps with production and having a wheel in the tank helps to reduce any cannibalism. Just from my and others I know experiences.
 
Pugsley said:
One more question. The feed, do you have that on the screen on top? In a bowl in the tub, what?
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The tubs are too deep for the mice to reach the top. you could rig sopmething to help them, but i don't think it is worth it. I put feed in lids from plastic peanut butter jars. yes, sometimes they throw the feed around and replace it with bedding. lol But they can hunt for it after they empty the lid out. Also, that hog feed falls through the hardware cloth. You could rig it, and then buy mazuri or something similar.

This is tricky to explain, but I might as well mention that they can't reach the bottles well either. But all you have to do is scratch up the tub where the bottle is, to give them traction.

Asf=african soft furs
They don't grow as fast, but have a lot more babies. They also don't smell.They aren't friendly like mice or norway rats. I don't have any, so this is just what i've read.

I'm glad to help in any way I can!
 
Also, I've heard asf's chew like no other. If you look close at my rack pic, you'll see hardware cloth over a section of one of the tubs. It's because one of them found a way to get a hold on a small hole in the tub. They did work on it for like an hour before I woke up and fixed it. I don't even see how they could even bite it, but i'd hate to see what asf's would do.
 
I keep a colony of regular pet shop "fancy" mice. They are always having litters and are easy to care for. Really all you need is to keep them clean, fed, and cool. I gotta say, I treat my mice like royalty, happy mice make happy snakes.
 
Maybe I should elaborate more. Honestly I keep one colony in a ten gallon tank, it's in my bedroom to stay cool. I never smell them but I have a giant mailbox on top of the tank simply because I have no where to put it right now lol, it lets air in but the smell doesn't waft I guess. I feed them a hamster/gerbil seed diet, supplement with good quality dog food and occasionally peanuts or a treat of peanut butter, peanuts are high fat and protein, female breeders do need a protein boost. I keep them on the same shredded aspen I use for my snakes and add a generous handful of timothy hay I keep for my tortoise as well. Timothy is high fiber and they love it, they eat it, shred it up and nest in it. I have had very very few instances of cannibalism, yes it's usually a new mom but with several experienced females they tend to share litters and even kidnap newborns lol. I had an older female recently make a nest at one end of the tank and another female found her as she was giving birth, she would steal the babies and for a while they were going back and forth, she'd steal one, the mom would get one back. It was hilarious. The only time I am ever bit is if I reach right into a nest of babies, then it's just a warning, no pain. They are a good bunch of mice. You'd think they were pets.
 
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