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02-02-12, 06:27 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
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Is now a god time to mention I eat road kill? My choice of re-freezing a rodent is I honestly have a very serious issue with throwing anything away. I eat ALL of the leftovers in my house. My wife threatens to toss something as her way of cleaning the fridge.
Now lets say you are paying $5 a mouse and the snake refuses to switch for 5 months. You try every week by offering one mouse and throwing it away when it refuses. That's $100!
Also in my defense I never leave a mouse in over night. If he doesn't take it after five minutes I just feed it to the next guy and anything unbeaten gets refrozen.
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Ok if I had to pay $5 a mouse, I see your point. We only charge $1 per adult mouse so I cant imagine $5.
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02-02-12, 06:32 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
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Ok if I had to pay $5 a mouse, I see your point. We only charge $1 per adult mouse so I cant imagine $5.
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Rodent prices are rediculous here.
Mice
Pinkies. $2
Hoppers. $3
Adult. $4
Rats
Pinkies. $3
Pups. $4
Small. $7
Mediun $9
Large. $12
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02-02-12, 06:28 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Also a rats ( large and up) cost $11.99 plus hst ( 13% sales tax) so plug that into the aforesaid mentioned equation and you just threw away $270.97.
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02-02-12, 06:53 PM
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The Mad Scot
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
Also a rats ( large and up) cost $11.99 plus hst ( 13% sales tax) so plug that into the aforesaid mentioned equation and you just threw away $270.97.
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Point taken man, that's a lot of cash :-D
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Your only young once, but you can be immature your whole damn life :-D
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02-02-12, 07:50 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
Also a rats ( large and up) cost $11.99 plus hst ( 13% sales tax) so plug that into the aforesaid mentioned equation and you just threw away $270.97.
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Yikes! Thats pet store prices.
We only charge $2.50 for the large and even the XXX is $4.00
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02-02-12, 06:50 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Ok you gus wrote to much aha
I fed her it went AMAZING!!!!!!! She ate 2 F/t hoppers, im going to get some more now as i can take the live back. i dont know if i should stick with the 2 hoppers a feeding or just go with 1 adult mouse???? help!!
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02-02-12, 06:56 PM
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The Mad Scot
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
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Originally Posted by Kylie
Ok you gus wrote to much aha
I fed her it went AMAZING!!!!!!! She ate 2 F/t hoppers, im going to get some more now as i can take the live back. i dont know if i should stick with the 2 hoppers a feeding or just go with 1 adult mouse???? help!!
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EXCELLENT woo hoo. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome our newest snake keeper KYLIE lol. Come on then spill the beans, tell us allll about it :-)
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Your only young once, but you can be immature your whole damn life :-D
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02-02-12, 06:51 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Definitely go up to 1 adult f/t mouse!
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02-02-12, 06:59 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Because of her age and the photos you've posted, she could definitely have an adult f/t mouse from now on
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02-02-12, 07:06 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Awesome Kylie! Out of morbid curiosity how did you kill them? Also I would go with the adult mouse.
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02-02-12, 07:13 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Congrats! I would definitely go with 1 adult as well.
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02-02-12, 08:58 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Well i was thinking on my way to the pet store, ill grab 2 Frozen hoppers and take the live as well just in case she wont eat the F/t.
So i thawed out the frozen ones in hot water and dried it with a town. Tried it and at first she was little hesitant and didn't no if she wanted it, but then she snatched it and scared the SH*T out of me! i jumped so high haha!!! But she ate 2 F/T hoppers and is now in her bigger hide.
I had to get 3 more frozen hoppers as i got to take the live ones back, so im going to feed her those the next feeding ( on the 16th) and then the feeding after that ill go with a adult mouse, i dont know it looked like she was having issues with the hoppers but that could just be me as iv never fed a snake before! but that was the best thing ever im so proud of her!!! 
Thanks for all the help guys! now all i have to do is get the temp thing under control and get her used to me!! YAY!!!
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02-02-12, 09:06 PM
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The Mad Scot
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
It's a great feeling the first time they eat for you. Glad everything went well. And yeah I think we all jumped the first time ;-) lol
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Your only young once, but you can be immature your whole damn life :-D
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02-02-12, 09:09 PM
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Lol yeah i hope! my mom laghed at me i jumped so high. the only thing i did that i didnt really want to cause iv heard horrer stories is, i fed her in her tank. will be bite me when i go to hold her next? ( of course not for 2-3days) im worried bout that now...but she didnt want to be picked up when i went to get her.
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02-02-12, 09:15 PM
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The Mad Scot
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Re: First time snake owner, looking for help!
Opinions vary. Some feed in. Some feed out. But you change her water every two days. Your going to be handling most days. And only feeding once a week. So she's not going to associate her viv being opened just with getting fed. Give her a few days to settle (I know it's hard lol) before you try handling again. Ideally don't try handling untill she's fed two/ three times.
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Your only young once, but you can be immature your whole damn life :-D
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