Diet of 100% Prawn...ok?

[cichlid2006]

Good advice guys, will let you know what I get and how it goes. I have been giving them Coley fish fillets as I read that was good and a decent price too!

ps. one of my LFS sells mice to feed to snakes. They are labelled specifically for that purpose. So they are breaking the law?

I myself would never feed anything live even if I could get hold of feeders, I'm just to squeamish and soft, I don't like it at all!

pps. cichlid2006, I know where to get Hikari Massivore 380G for £18.36 delivered if you wanted that again.

I don't use massivore, I just needed a quick reference to show that nls isn't as expensive as people think. I just skimmed ebay for a quick example.

And no your lfs isn't technically breaking the law by selling them but using live vertabrates breaks new animal welfare laws to intentionally put an animal in harms way and you must provide adequate care in all aspects of the animals life (food, bedding, etc). Feeding them alive to a snake definitely constitutes intentionally causing harm.
If the RSPCA raid them they could lose their pet trading license.

 

[cichlid2006]

Time ran out before I could edit:

I don't use massivore, I just needed a quick reference to show that nls isn't as expensive as people think. I just skimmed ebay for a quick example.

And no your lfs isn't technically breaking the law by selling them but using live vertabrates breaks new animal welfare laws to intentionally put an animal in harms way and you must provide adequate care in all aspects of the animals life (food, bedding, etc). Feeding them alive to a snake definitely constitutes intentionally causing harm.
I don't know what the RSPCA's take would be on the sale of verts labelled as food, they may persue for encouraging cruelty if the current laws permit. If I were to guess I would say your lfs is taking a gamble with its license.

 

[packer43064]

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