Switching an Eastern Coachwhip

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This thread is fun and full of good stuff. In a real way we are creating a living growing text. It is not always like that on forums.

The only deficit is that posts appear from one, then another, and that they over lap without interactive vibrancy of face to face talk. None of us holds a truly contradictive view with the other but we dont have the opportunity to see that in each other's eyes or hear it in each others voices.

The enthusiasm and pleasure of sharing and exploring such wonderful topics with people who are like ourselves - people who take care of serpents.
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how cool it would be to build an adult enclosure for her future with for you to enjoy her utilizing her natural gifts
i'm picturing something like an ant farm. A tall, wide, pretty flat enclosure with a full- or nearly-full width fake-rock wall up almost the entire back, with a flattish top ("big ledge"). Something suggesting limestone, with some horizontal layering to the cliff face. A few holes through the "cliff" opening into pockets or "caves" on the back side, which have clear doors. Or opaque doors with a peephole built in. These caves at different heights, offering a temp range. One with sphagnum or some other humid substrate. Good strong LED lights shining down on a plant or two, planted in a void (substrate LECA? growstones? Turface?) in the upper third of the "cliff" - a climbing Aloe, or maybe a Hoya or Beaucarnia or Sanseveria. Something tough, xeric, spineless.

I remember something like this from the KS "build" or species forums - maybe the alterna one? Or somebody was keeping a Baird's rat in something like this? Heck, maybe it was a suboc. Long time ago it seems...

I would execute this in carved foam board, covered in epoxy, painted with acrylic. Lightweight, nontoxic, bomber waterproof, scrubbable even. I haven't yet used this formulation, but it looks way easier to work than the epoxy putty I have been using (very happily) the last decade or so: https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/ ... cast-coat/
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Progress...tonight marks the second consecutive week the suboc has taken a quail and colored mouse without needing to thaw/boil them together. I simply let them thaw to room temperature and she eats them within 20-45 minutes of introducing them into her enclosure.

I think I have three quail left now. I don't think I'll have a problem having her eat solely mice once the quail run out, and I'm confident her weight is going to be sufficiently increased by the end of this month that even if she were to refuse food she'll be OK to cool down for the winter. She's still very friendly/inquisitive.

Great snake I hope to use in educational displays/events next year...
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Thats great Chris - I hope you keep us updated on her and just a note, if you thaw your feeders in firmly warm water you get a nice, fresh, warm animal to feed. It greatly expedites the thaw and eliminates the mild spoil that happens with room temp thawing, which isnt so much of a health hazard really to a snake, but it does start to happen while still partially frozen, and a fresh corpse is what a snake most commonly eats.

Its not too complicated, just tap water in a tupperware container, no need to monitor the temp as you arent going to offer it hot, the water itself drops rapidly and when it feels pleasantly warm and pliable to your thumb under the rib cage - fresh, clean, ready to feed.

If you are a measurer by nature, 105 to 110 F starting point will do the trick, by the time it thaws, the mouse/quail and the water will be significantly cooler. With a much shorter wait.
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I'd kill to see some nocturnal video of suboc forage behavior at night.

It would be a cool albeit daunting project for someone if they had the equipment - i would think it possible. Im guessing there are little night capable cameras?


Day guys too, I think about Zonata moving in and out of boulder crevices, waiting, leaving, creeping back, then snagging a scelop as it slips sideways in a cool shadow.

The realm of cryptic life separated from our sight by layers and tons.
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Kelly Mc wrote:I'd kill to see some nocturnal video of suboc forage behavior at night.

It would be a cool albeit daunting project for someone if they had the equipment - i would think it possible. Im guessing there are little night capable cameras?
Absolutely, just like the night-vision-goggle-looking cameras they use on the African plains. I'm not referring to the "classic" infrared cams, which would be nearly useless for a herp situation, but rather the ones which give a green-tinted output (yes, technically they get into the "near-IR" range of the electromagnetic spectrum, but they're mostly amping-up what available visible light there is).

Here's an example...Sony used to make video cameras with a NightShot function which basically shot a beam of IR light not too far off the visible light spectrum, to allow the camera to amp-up the image without overdoing it (due to lower ambient light levels) which would result in scintillation and "graininess" of the final photo. This is a still from such a machine, of a Gehyra in Malaysia from about 15 years ago. I don't know if anyone in the consumer market still makes a similarly-capable device, but they can be fun to play around with.

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That would be totally enough of a good image to capture behaviors..!

That would be really cool for someone to get obsessed with - i would imagine some careful, careful editing skills among others, time lapse etc but thats in excellent supply here - it should be done!!
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Kelly Mc wrote:That would be totally enough of a good image to capture behaviors..!

That would be really cool for someone to get obsessed with - i would imagine some careful, careful editing skills among others, time lapse etc but thats in excellent supply here - it should be done!!
It WOULD be...but it's very, very cost-ineffective, both in time, effort, and money. MOST subocs I've found have been on the road surface and not "foraging" per se. I supposed a person could just watch them the rest of the night, but that would take a lot of will power for the average West TX herper (myself included!) since most of us have other species we'd like to see in the generally-short amount of time we get to spend out there. Just getting out to the area--food, gas, lodging, and then timing and time--eliminate many of the folks who could make it happen. But it is an intriguing idea. Let me clue a suboc aficionado in on this discussion and see what he thinks.
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Well, I'm talking to Dustin Rhoads as we speak (author of The Complete Suboc) and he's interested in seeing what we can do about this, maybe next summer...thanks for the idea, Kelly! :beer:
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Cool!!!

Perhaps folks supportive of the project could even donate to the trip, I will pledge my part, keep me posted :)
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Noah,

This is an after-thought, a long after-thought :lol: .
This is in "for what it’s worth" category.

As you know, young coachwhip diet, at least in Florida, is primarily lizards and small snakes then a host of all others (baby birds, large insects, small rodents, etc.) The calcium content in lizards and snakes is much higher than other prey. Even the mice they eat are primarily the Peromyscus group.

Gleaning some of the more important data from this well known nutritional study ( http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/000ADOBE ... 2May29.pdf ),
It is apparent that protein and calcium is significantly higher in Peromyscus and lizards; though not tested, fat is probably lower.

Anecdotally, by adding a pinch of calcium with D3 to F/T mice, I seemed to get better growth and eggs from my Kingsnakes and other lizard/snake eaters. Since snakes get their Vitamin D from their food, not UVB, combining calcium and D3 may be a worthwhile supplement for this species.


Prey species.................SIZE...........Crude protein.......Crude fat.....Gross energy.....Ca%
Mouse, domestic...........juvenile...........44.2 ................30.1 ............6.65.............1.47
Mouse, domestic...........Adult...............55.8 ................23.6............ 5.25.............2.98
..................................or >10 g
Mouse, white-footed......adult...............59.7..................19.9............5.51.............3.74
Rat............................Juvenile.............56.1..................27.5...........5.55..............1.85
.................................10-50 g
Chicken...................One-day-old.........64.9..................22.4............5.80.............1.69
Lizard, anolis................Adult...............67.4.................. NA...............NA.............5.54
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That isnt true Bill. Actually - All animals "get" D3 from their food..

Snakes do biosynthesize D3 from ultraviolet absorption which is also prevalent across animal forms

There is nothing "special" about snakes in these capacities. Somehow in keepers minds, perhaps infused by turtles and lizards bone developmental reliance on conversion, that because snakes do not require photobiotic d3 conversion for tissue development, like pet turtles and lizards, that snakes are 'uniquely designed' to "get D3 from the liver of their prey" which is simplistic and inaccurate.
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In keeping snakes of many species with and without uvb the observation that they repose themselves out of their hides more frequently has been substantial. The shed rate of mature individuals that bask with greatest regularity approaches shed rates per sub adulthood in snakes raised. I am not saying it is "Better" its just noted.

If I were to examine my core motive for including it, I would have to say it is to break the complete absence of it in indoor conditions.

I would also be curious to know if the shed rates of snakes that receive ultraviolet contact in captivity more closely resembles snake shed rates in wild situ.
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I understand this is a strong opinion that you have, and I respect it, but I see no proof to support much benefit to introducing UVB lighting to snake cages, even after reading the other UVB post. We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one.


You're right in that I misspoke saying "Since snakes get their Vitamin D from their food, not UVB, combining calcium and D3 may be a worthwhile supplement for this species."
I should have amended it to say that UVB has not been proven a significant factor in snakes synthesizing Vitamin D, as opposed to turtles and lizards, so calcium with D3 seems like a good supplement for growing youngsters and breeding females.
The studies show only a marginal increase in Vitamin D by Corns being exposed to UVB.




Bottom line is that if you don’t take UVB seriously in Lizard and turtle husbandry, many deleterious events will occur.
If your captive, vertebrate eating snake never sees a light that emits wavelengths of 280 to 315 nm, it will still thrive, and , if kept properly on all other facets, and will see a long life.




This Baird’s Ratsnake regularly forages hunts and basks in these lights, but all lights are LED that operate in the 400 and 800 nm with trace amounts down to 380 nm, including the spot light. She never sees UVB wavelengths and grows, thrives, breeds, etc.




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This website has an excellent, animated graphic for understanding this in lizards:
http://www.uvguide.co.uk/vitdpathway.htm
But the increased filter effect of the increased keratin in snake skin has to be considered as a different.
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It isnt a strong opinion but the description of a practice thats not unlike any other provision, but for some reason makes people respond with automatic contention, even if they have never actually used it. The study involving Corn Snakes proved that UVB is converted per plasma to 25-hydroxy vitamin D, and conceded to its own limitations of design. There is no evidence that 'More' is desired, a marginal increase in levels proved there is no mechanism or inability to its process, similiar to many other organisms.

Before Led lights popularity, some keepers used incandescent lighting (and still do) to augment a day cycle in their charges. Using UVB-including lighting does the same in defining the photoperiod but with normally encountered wavelengths that replicate daylight contact. It is also self mitigating, unlike oral supplementation which can only be guessworked in application to avoid toxicity.

I have used the same lighting with birds, and even mantids and some spiders, and have for many years as a part of non domestic animal husbandry and rehabilitation.
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It is interesting how UVB use in snake environments Always, Always gravitates around D3 and lizards and turtles, always repeating that there are no deficiencies with snakes that eat whole prey, how they can live without it, when no where ever have I said I used it for that purpose.

That is not why I use uvb lighting in the environments of my favorite snakes, or snakes I wanted to daycycle with more attention or set up for others.

I have mentioned Photobiology in interdisciplinary addition to animal husbandry, as well as Neuroethology. Herpetoculture is a great opportunity to learn and incorporate many things that we wont find in the usual places. It makes the interesting even more interesting.
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Beautiful Bairds.. excellent life I know she must have.

I also would like to recognize that although you might not want to come right out and say it, you would have an intuitive precision about supplementing as you mentioned.

Its the ability to measure on the sharp wing of experience.
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I read a few things, but I have been MIA for a while. My apologies.

I'm not sure where I left off, but the little guy is alive and well, happy with his diet of brown anoles. He's up to 2-3 of them a week, and I offer a basking light 3-4 days a week as well, keeping the metabolism up. The days he doesn't have is light because the light is on the neighboring cage, a 3'+ coachwhip I've had since October.

The larger whip readily eats f/t mice as well as live anoles. They are both collected from two different areas, but both are FL examples. I'm thinking that at some point the little guy will grow big enough to switch to mice naturally. I wanted to test this by seeing what a larger whip eats and I'm almost sure of it now. The little guy has just about doubled in length since I got him and I see no signs of him slowing down.

Also, what I found very interesting is that neither whip took live baby corns. I offered off and on for 3 weeks. The smaller whip did eat a small corn shortly after I acquired it, but this time there was no interest at all.

I also offered the larger whip quail eggs and there was no interest in them either.

I'm glad my thread started such an interesting discussion!
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Glad to hear from you again and that your coachwhip is doing well. yeah its weird how an accepted item is refused (baby corn) sometimes it isnt really even the food item but some other factor or difference in scenario or encounter that results in a pass.

Im really happy everything is going well, but admit I had a personal interest in having you work my scenting technique - it creates an interesting subject opportunity. I suppose many people keeping a coachwhip would have an easy time catching lizards for it but there are those who may make a snake acquisition with less locality favor - and the price of buying feeder lizards and their health hygiene could use an alternative.

To the spirit of herpetocultural adventure... we've only scratched the surface. Im sure of it.
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Just another after, after thought, Noah.

You seem to be doing well with the animal. :beer:

Grasshoppers and cicadas from areas you trust to not have insecticide are taken often in the wild.
(Starting hatchling Northern Black Racers, also primarily a sight feeder, is also easier when they take crickets.

Since its spring, small frogs could be a readily available prey, if readily accepted, and easier to scent over to mice.
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June 25th, 2019 was the day. This was the day the coachwhip decided to eat a rodent. On a whim, after years of catching anoles, I bought a fuzzy from the pet shop dropped it in the tank. Lightning quick as ever, the little bugger shot out his hide and inhaled the rodent. It was alive, but completely unscented.

I offered another one today and it gobbled it down.

I banked on waiting until the snake got big enough and sure enough, (it is about 3' now) it finally decided it was time to move on from lizards.
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That's great, thanks for sharing the continuing story!

This is similar to when I've started neonate tropical snakes on live frogs or lizards - that being all they want. There usually comes a time when they will readily accept a small mouse, with no extra prep (scenting or whatever). I find this approach much, much preferable to struggling with tease feeding, scent transfer, etc.

So, what's the little guy look like now?

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Update on my suboc: she eats LARGE adult white mice now, and I have had to really dial back the feeding frequency...though I don't think she's grown appreciably in length, she now weighs triple her weight at collection from the wild.

Noah M, your update gives me hope for my female NM milksnake, who still eats live brown anoles...ideally one day a switch will flip in her brain and she'll take rodents...
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Jimi wrote: July 1st, 2019, 11:16 am
So, what's the little guy look like now?

I'll have to take updated pictures. I've just been super busy with work, volunteering and I just got back from salamander hunting in NC.
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No idea if this will work on coachwhips, but for many years I produced Mussurana. They were GREAT snake feeders as hatchlings, but not so good at rodents. One day I decided to try taking a portion of a shed from a feeder snake (I used to produce cornsnakes for hatchling feeders) and place it on the head or a F/T pinky mouse. I got the head of the pinky wet so the shed would stick like glue. BAM! The hatchling Mussuranas would take them every time. At that point I started using less and less shed, and then after only a couple of feedings they took unscented pinkies with no hesitation. I did this for years, never failed.

So maybe try taking some sheddings from an anole (keep a small colony for “shed-feeders”) on a pinky mouse. I’d love to hear if it would also work for coachwhips!

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Cool Scott, plus there's the pleasure of keeping a group of Anoles.
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The dramatic flair unmatched in other lizard groups imo!

Hey excuse the double up of posts, old device becoming more and more uncooperative

But I wanted to say hi Scott and Noah and Chris too (You too Jimi)

I like the collab opportunity we have here and the follow ups. We should do more - I would follow every journey. Scott I have always wanted to experience the Mussurana, never have had the opportunity but love reading about them, really enjoy your share about the sheds for the babies. Makes sense, and very neat, efficient. I think its important to try something that has worked in one species with another species. Different guys can have cues in common.

Scenting is fascinating and so is the flip of feeding gears.
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Great to see updates posted. Wouldn't be a complete story without. Thanks for that.

What is a good way to humanely euthanize frogs to use as feeders? I've used benzocaine before, but when they were not being fed to something. I doubt that would be safe. I also don't plan on building a CO2 chamber.
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Instant destruction of the brain.
A hammer is effective.

Most “euthanization concern” papers that are based upon terminating ectodermic , lower vertebrates for scientific studies, such as parasite studies, so chemical termination works great, but, as you mentioned, feeding a predator something full of chemicals is not good.
Institutional euthanizing is also under close regulatory scrutiny.

Several papers talk of the presence of pain sensors (nerve endings) in lower vertebrates, concluding pain to the animals, but often ignored is the brain’s cognition of pain.

Even higher vertebrates, who clearly feel pain (even us), that are typically prey species, are often protected by going into shock.



IMHO
We over think this subject.

Let’s go to the natural world for grounding.
Anthropomorphizing is a trap.

A garter snake in your garden eats a Wood Frog. The prey is grasped in sharp teeth often on the back half, struggles violently (certainly a survival strategy), is swallowed alive and kicking, dies moderately slowly from asphyxiation or stomach juices.
We humans have the luxury of being “humane” to get our chicken tenders and pork chops, but these are higher vertebrates and under unnatural controlled conditions.

I’ve met people who don’t like fishing because they assume the hook in the jaw causes pain. This in an animal that may eat stinging insects like Bumble Bees, animals with sharp claws or mandibles such as crayfish and hellgrammites, etc.


I question the institutional negativity of freezing.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/art ... 53/2641243
Again, just IMHO
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There are things about pithing, and really if you break it down it really seems like one of those things where theory and practice arent holding tight hands. When your using something small, your shot has to be well, you get it.

Thanks for the article on freezing, Bill. I think its vital not to settle on things but be open to look again, deeper, more, even if the first data you digest rings a bell of veracity and thus becomes.. A Belief.

I gotta tell ya , at one time I would have been able to manually euth a frog, but not now. No politics or ideology, Im just easier hurt inside now, by guys in pain or fear. Less able to block it out for the clinical good. If I had a frog-only eater, well I might have to let the snake do it.
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On an alternate note, back in the 60's, I saw a biology department keep live leopard frogs (destined for disection) in excess of 6 months in a refridgerated tray of shallow water.
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Leopard frogs unfortunate enough to find themselves in the trade are hyperbolic slippery rockets of prey item self-awareness.

Still, I have seen them at rest, basking. Beautiful lit from within luminescence turning on in chromatophore. Like polished mineral, the skin of many frogs become gem like when happy. Oh my I said Happy.



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Thanks for that link Bill. Interesting stuff. Its funny how some things just become "fact" and gets repeated by everyone. Maybe the freezer is the best. I also agree that blunt force trauma is humane, and can be a good tool which I have used in certain instances, but a hammer on a small frog could get a little messy!

There are two reasons Im interested in euthanizing some frogs. The first is to try the frog leg skin sleeve talked about in this thread for scenting, and also to get rid of some bullfrogs that are taking over my backyard pond and eating everything. I do have some larger snakes that would eat them, but Ive always been on the fence about feeding wild herps to other herps due to the parasite risk. I just doesn't seem worth it to me in this case.

Kelly, I know what you mean about getting soft. I used to breed mice and manually separate their vertebrae for euthanasia, I'm not very comfortable with it now.
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and also to get rid of some bullfrogs that are taking over my backyard pond and eating everything.
Dependant upon local laws and how rural you live, .22 caliber fire arm loaded with #12 Shot Shells works very quickly with frogs and lizards.
(It was the chosen method of collecting museum specimens a billion years ago.)
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When I was just a kid, teenager I volunteered at a Nature Center and thought up a way to get some WC little sidewinders to eat by putting them in their ventilated feeding containers with pinkies Inside the sceloperus display.
Later I duplicated it somewhat with lizard eating wc snakes, colubrids, and some absolutely stunning and obscure neo tropic sp. by putting them in paper bags in a community ( and admittedly overcrowded) lizard environment.
But the poultry liver slurry remains as the most practical and independent method ive come up with.

Yes, I am thankful for no longer having to "service" my own feeder rodents. Its drying to the spirit. Important it be done well, and quickly.
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Somewhat relevant question: does anyone know how effective freezing is for killing harmful pathogens and how long/cold the freeze should be? Thanks

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I too would like a definitive answer to this. I've heard some different things but never anything concrete backed by evidence.
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Daniel
how effective freezing is for killing harmful pathogens
Most human food websites conclude that freezing does not kill many bacteria, but rather "puts it on hold" ( stops harmful bacteria from growing.) Cooking kills bacteria (not much help to us for feeders!).


For most common parasites (like Helminthes), most human food sites agree that with high probability killing of parasites, deep freezing can be effective:

From FDA on fish
Freezing and storing at an ambient temperature of -4°F (-20°C) or below for 7 days (total time), or freezing at an ambient temperature of -31°F
(-35°C) or below until solid and storing at an ambient temperature of -31°F (-35°C) or below for 15 hours, or freezing at an ambient temperature of -31°F (-35°C) or below until solid and storing at an ambient temperature of -4°F (-20°C) or below for 24 hours are sufficient to kill parasites. Note that these conditions may not be suitable for freezing particularly large fish (e.g., thicker than 6 inches).
https://www.fda.gov/media/80777/download


Don Becker's comment in this 2010 post seems right on target. viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17499&p=203883&hil ... er#p203883


This discussion, Kevin, motivated me to check temps in my freezer! :thumb:
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I thought this was discussed before, and it looks like I started it last time! Lol
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The longer and colder you freeze yer feeders, while not allowing them to lose quality thru freezer burn (when organic matter meets oxygen and freezing temps) the more the cell membranes of the unwanted disintegrate on thawing.
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Frozen animals decompose so much quicker than pre killed for the same break down reason.

I remember having a fun 'imagine this' about futuristic Herpetoculture.. Imagine growing bio replica of different prey - ala ranid, hylid, saurian, ophidian food globs.

Stimulating idea for a thread, in my minds eye I picture Spock's Lava Viper morph collection on the Enterprise. Ha
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Thank you Bill and Kelly.

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Oh man you are most welcome. Love conversing with you Daniel. I would like to more.

As time goes on, and internet market fervor seeps hints of a darkish, competitive yet fact-unaccountable pitch generally I worry more about non biological things in/on my feeders.

I like knowing the truth and I will pay more for accountable product. I dont like rodent companies that broker stock and I dont fully trust what is told to me. Ive seen too much and am too attached to my animals health. Not just because I love them, because quite honestly I really do have that feeling but becuse of the energy and worry and duress of illness and treatment.

Companies KNOW their consumers. Demand transparency.


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Back to topic it would be cool to see some photos sometime.

I have since the beginning thought how forums like this could be a revolutionary tool. But only if we are interested in it being that.
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