step by step guide to making a c02 gas chamber

[Ssthisto]

Potentially, but when removed from the CO2 while still breathing they revive VERY quickly.

[LiamRatSnake]

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

Potentially, but when removed from the CO2 while still breathing they revive VERY quickly.

So would need to be instant? I'd like to get some multis going, but I'll have nightmares that they'll wake up in the freezer before freezing... Is their breathing noticable when unconcious? So you can easily tell it's stopped?

[smith86king]

i was thinkin about this the other day and but to make it ecnomical how many snakes do you think you would ahve to keep if you were feeding them 1 mouse/rat a week at cost per rat of £2, taking in to account food and shelter for the rats aswell as the co2,
Also rats breed like rabbits how would you stop interbreeding betwen them or would you not bother and leave them to it?
you could sell the surplus on to somebody tho?

[LiamRatSnake]

Originally Posted by smith86king

i was thinkin about this the other day and but to make it ecnomical how many snakes do you think you would ahve to keep if you were feeding them 1 mouse/rat a week at cost per rat of £2, taking in to account food and shelter for the rats aswell as the co2,
Also rats breed like rabbits how would you stop interbreeding betwen them or would you not bother and leave them to it?
you could sell the surplus on to somebody tho?

It's probably not worth it for one, but if you had a m+f pair, they'd pump a few out any surplus can be sold or kept in the freezer.

[Grond]

Originally Posted by LiamRatSnake

So would need to be instant? I'd like to get some multis going, but I'll have nightmares that they'll wake up in the freezer before freezing... Is their breathing noticable when unconcious? So you can easily tell it's stopped?

You can still see them breathing quite easily until they're dead. I don't take any out until they have all stopped breathing. I tend to kill them in batches of 30-50 at a time.

Ssthisto is right about them waking up. If you take the lid off whilst one of them is still breathing, it gets back up in seconds. I've made this mistake a couple of times and now leave them for a while after I think they've all stopped breathing.

[celicachi]

good thread, i might give it ago

[celicachi]

does anyone know if you can buy co2 from wilco's?

[Ssthisto]

I have never seen it in a Wilko. But if you don't have a local Halfords you can order CO2 canisters and a regulator online from welding supply shops (PM me if you'd like a link to the shop I use; if you use a shop where you can get three canisters for less than £35 delivered please let me know!)

[celicachi]

where to you buy a tube big enough for the co2 valve or do they sell those in halfords too?

[rockkeeper]

how about using a 2kg fire extinguisher co2, making the hole big enough for it in the chamber,so that the black tube thing can fit in the side,then one little squit to put them to sleep, followed a bigger blast to finish

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