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Rats have more nourishment . Calcium and will make your maccie work harder to swallow. I had 2 coastals from the same clutch and the one who refused mice was oly half the size of its mate who went on rats when i first offered them . That is why i insist that you try to get on rats as soon as possible .
Barry
 
Garthy agreed but if the girth of the rodent is bigger than the girth of the reptile it means the same .
Barry
 
we did a breeding project at tafe with mice, we had to breed two generations and weigh them weekly etc, at birth (pinkies) the mice weighed 1-2g each, at 2 weeks (fuzzies) they weighed 3-4g each and at 3 weeks (weaners) they weighed 5-7g each so theres really not much difference between the weaners and fuzzies, at 6 weeks they weighed 16-18g each and as adults they weigh about 30g, my stimson is 10 months old and i feed her small weaners, it also depends on the breed of mice i guess, the ones on that website are balb/c, we bred c57bl.dba2 but they should be around the same weights, i also didnt know that rats were better food to provide, it thought theyd be nutritionally the same so itd be interesting to find out how they benefit =)
 
Gavin

I have a 9month old Blonde and i feed her weaners, she eats them fine.

Here you can see my snakes size compared to the mouse.
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This is after she has eaten, she has a nice lump :D
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Hope that helps :)
 
we did a breeding project at tafe with mice, we had to breed two generations and weigh them weekly etc, at birth (pinkies) the mice weighed 1-2g each, at 2 weeks (fuzzies) they weighed 3-4g each and at 3 weeks (weaners) they weighed 5-7g each so theres really not much difference between the weaners and fuzzies, at 6 weeks they weighed 16-18g each and as adults they weigh about 30g, my stimson is 10 months old and i feed her small weaners, it also depends on the breed of mice i guess, the ones on that website are balb/c, we bred c57bl.dba2 but they should be around the same weights, i also didnt know that rats were better food to provide, it thought theyd be nutritionally the same so itd be interesting to find out how they benefit =)
icic thanks alot for that. Well, the difference between rats and mice, i looked it up on google and found this, http://www.reptileforums.net/forums/amphibians/21175-rats-vs-mice.html
read the posts, they talk about the differences:D
 
Gavin

I have a 9month old Blonde and i feed her weaners, she eats them fine.

Here you can see my snakes size compared to the mouse.
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This is after she has eaten, she has a nice lump :D
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Hope that helps :)
Wow, thanks, that really helped, because now i know i can feed him it =D btw you have a really nice blonde mac:D mine is not so blonde, so i suspect that it isnt one :shock:
 
Wow, thanks, that really helped, because now i know i can feed him it =D btw you have a really nice blonde mac:D mine is not so blonde, so i suspect that it isnt one :shock:

Your welcome :) Pics always help !
And thanks, i lovee my girl
 
Nope, hardly ever!
Only if shes really hungry, she has bitten me once..last week actually, she mistook my finger for food!
Other than that she is a perfect angel :)
 
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