Found Another Bad Crab, Anybody Want It?

Beverly · #1 05-14-2003, 11:35 PM

Bought some new rock to get my empty 7 gal started again. I was reaaranging the rock today and, dang, found another crab that I believe is a mithrax. The poor little guy really didn't like being picked up by the tweezers, and it was a struggle to get him out, but he's out now.

Am not planning to visit the lfs again this week and am wondering if anyone wants him.

Aquattro · #2 05-14-2003, 11:54 PM

Crab ROCKIN' time......

Beverly · #3 05-15-2003, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by reef_raf

Crab ROCKIN' time......

Geez, Brad, I hope not this time

It was bad enough feeding our python this afternoon ... they need to eat a live mouse every 7 to 10 days. Today was the day for that sad, but necessary, event. Don't really want to rock this crab, but am too busy until next week to get to the lfs with it.

Pleeeeease, someone take it .....

Aquattro · #4 05-15-2003, 12:12 AM

Beverly, off topic, but why don't you feed frozen rats? Just as good and safer for the snake. Cheaper too, I bet.

Beverly · #5 05-15-2003, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by reef_raf

Beverly, off topic, but why don't you feed frozen rats? Just as good and safer for the snake. Cheaper too, I bet.

Ball pythons will not eat frozen food, and I doubt he will ever get to the size of needing to eat a rat. My guy will only grow to 4-6 feet long, not like, say, Burmese pythons that'll get 20-30 feet long and will eat rabbits, dogs, small children

I'm not saying that you think this, Brad, but I think some people think it's less yucky to feed a snake pre-killed food rather than feeding live food. But the mouse still has to be killed by someone. It's still a dead mouse in the end anyway.

I agree that frozen food can be less dangerous to the snake because a dead mouse cannot injure the snake in any way. However, you never know how the mouse was killed, or, for that matter, how it lived before it was killed. I buy my mice from a pet store that breeds them right in the store. They even give the mice baths once a week to keep possible parasites at bay.

I drive out of my way to buy these mice because they are well cared for. When I get home, I put the mouse in the snake's feeding house, which is portable and much smaller than his regular house. The mouse has water and food and is given a chance to settle down after the scary trip back from the pet store before it becomes lunch for the snake. How strange, but nice, is that???

Anyway, I still have the crab if anyone wants it

Aquattro · #6 05-15-2003, 01:03 AM

Bev, I agree that the only benefit is that the mouse won't bite the snake. Oh, and I can buy them in a bag of 100! Decent savings in bulk. They're killed in a CO2 chamber by a local supplier of feeder rodents (www.mouseman.ca).

**Ever notice how I have a bad habit of hijacking threads??

CRAB still available!!

Quinn · #7 05-15-2003, 03:10 AM

this time i can actually take him!

i dropped you a pm, bev.

Beverly · #8 05-15-2003, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by reef_raf

**Ever notice how I have a bad habit of hijacking threads??

Yes, you do have a way of hijacking threads, but at least you're not annoying like someone on another board I frequent. Now that guy needs to have his head examined. You're okay, in my books.

BTW, sounds like you have a snake, too? If so, (while we're off topic already) what kind?

Aquattro · #9 05-15-2003, 04:04 AM

Mine is a corn snake. I bought it for my kid as a 8th BDay present, and as it got bigger, she became scared of it. So now it's "my" snake.

I've had many other snakes over the years; Boas, Pythons, most native canadian snakes.

BC_Grl · #10 05-15-2003, 05:14 AM

oh no! Brad, is the snake yours now?

I had a friend who owns a pet store and he sells frozen rats. He just sticks them into the freezer. Says it is the most humane way to kill them rather than gassing them to death?

And as a sidebar, Brad... aren't you, as a STAFF member, supposed to keep people on track with threads??