- Petco experts explain feeding frozen/thawed foods to your reptiles & amphibians. Learn safe practices, food types, and health benefits for a thriving pet.
Frozen-thawed removes that risk entirely. Selecting the correct prey size is essential for safe, successful feeding. As a general rule, you want to choose a rodent that's roughly the same girth as the thickest part of your snakes body.
If theyre used to eating live mice, you have two transitions to help them through: mice to rat and live to F/T. If you have problems you may want to tackle these one at a time. For example, first get them eating live rats instead of live mice. Then try to get them eating freshly killed rats, then finally frozen thawed rats.
Feeding live rodents is not recommended. By opting for frozen/thawed food rather than live rodents, you avoid many potentially serious problems and inconveniences and have gone a long way toward ensuring that your animal enjoys a lengthy and trouble-free life.
- And many people reveal during these conversations that the only reason theyd never looked seriously into getting a snake as a pet was because of a fear of (or simple distaste for) the idea of feeding live prey. Most people are a bit surprised when I tell them that I simply buy frozen mice or rats, usually in bulk (packages of 12 or 24) so that I dont need to worry about going to the pet store every single week. I can then thaw the prey items out, one at a time, much like youd thaw out a chicken breast before cooking it.
- I have been thinking about this topic for a while. Other then the first few hatchling meals, I am now 5+ years in on feeding exclusively Frozen Thawed Rats to my collection (about 19+ snakes) and have started to make so
