bad idea raising mice in the same room as snakes?

[Cirith Ungol]

I was wondering because I could imagine that that would keep the snakes constantly on egde... or has someone tried this with no detrimental effects? I'm talking about corn snakes and I know that as soon as my female smells mice she starts looking for them. I could imagine she could get crazy searching for the prey but never getting any closer, but I can't know for sure.

It would be good for me if I could raise mice for 5-6 months thus stocking up on them, but I have no way doing the mouse raising somewhere separate since my flat is too small and I don't even have doors I could close and seal inbetween the two parties.

 

[Thoth]

The only two possibly things I could think of:

It may give the snake enough motivation to escape and to try to get to the mice.

or

I'm not sure if it is possible for snakes but it may eventually become desensitized to scent of mice, maybe relying on other cues motion or body temp as indicators thay prey is around, making feeding f/t hawed prey difficult).

How likely either scenario is I can't tell.

 

[Cirith Ungol]

I can think of an extention to one of yours - that when desensitized it might go for anything that moves, including fat round fingers...

 

[Kid Dragon]

My snakes can all tell when there are mice in the room, they go to the top of their enclosure and taste the air with their tongues. One of my ball pythons will strike at anything once it smells/tastes a mouse. Its probably like us watching a pizza commercial with no food in the house.

:} :drool: :evil:

 

[Cirith Ungol]

My snakes can all tell when there are mice in the room, they go to the top of their enclosure and taste the air with their tongues. One of my ball pythons will strike at anything once it smells/tastes a mouse. Its probably like us watching a pizza commercial with no food in the house.

:} :drool: :evil:

Yeah and then we eat anything as long as it's round

 

[ingas866]

You should not. As ever one has said they will try to get out to get to the food. I use to have 20 breeding pairs and I found out the hard way when I putsome left over mice in a tank and left it in the room. When I came back I had some of my snakes with marks on there noises and 2 that got out into the room. If you can try to buy frozen mice it is cheeper then trying to rase your own. If you do not know where to get some go to kingsnake.com there are adds for mice that can be shipped all over.

 

[Cirith Ungol]

I have a good supplier of mice but I think I could do it cheaper, providing them with home made food and I was also very curious about those animals in general. So I was thinking of combining joy with the practical aspect of it (however morbid that now may sound ). But if there is that said risk then I don't wanna try it and will continue with ft mice.

 

[MysticKigh]

I raise mice, rats, and gerbils (primarily because I have a few w/c's that I have not yet been able to convert to f/t. I have not had any problems with my snakes trying to escape etc to get to the rodent housing. I use feeding boxes for my snakes that are live feeders and they are far more likely to get excited about seeing/smelling the appearance of feeding boxes than they are about seeing the feeders. My f/t feeders ignore the live food completely. I'm not saying that this is the 'norm' ,as it may not be, but in my experience I haven't had any problems

 

[Varden]

I don't have snakes, but I raise mice to feed to my monitor. And the problem I had was all six of my mama mice smelled the monitor. Everything was okay for the first couple days. They were on edge and skittish, but on day three of each of them having babies, they would then cannibalized them. I moved the mama mice out into the a different room and haven't had that problem since.

 

[reptillian]

snakes losing their sense of detecting mice by sen ti think that is rediculous

 

[Crotalus]

I wouldnt because of it might stress out the snakes by sencing the food around them. Why not put the mice in the bathroom, works well. clean them often and they wont smell so bad either. Use aspflis (sorry swedish word) in the bottom.

/Lelle

 

[Cirith Ungol]

I wouldnt because of it might stress out the snakes by sencing the food around them. Why not put the mice in the bathroom, works well. clean them often and they wont smell so bad either. Use aspflis (sorry swedish word) in the bottom.

/Lelle

Thanks for the suggestion... I also have a cat though that might get stressed by finding the mice in the bathroom, right next to its litterbox