Hi again, so I have a concern. Raul should be seven months old rn according to the breeder. When he hit six months I went to switch him from mice to rats and the rats they gave me were...big. Like not super big to were he couldn't get them down but big to were he grew girth way too quick, so I stretched out his feeding days (only by two extra days) thinking, "It's fine they said these rats would do..." but then I noticed he was losing weight between feeding, (he also took a huge crap) he was at 500+ g and when I weighed him outta concern he was 288g I panicked! How can he lose that much between a sitting? He doesn't have worms he got a clean bill of health from the vet, but if it sounds like it I'll take him back.

My problem is, he's grown length now. It's like that girth went to length! He's almost 3ft long!

Out of fear that I was following someone's orders who was wronging me I switched to a smaller rat and he's back on his normal feeding schedule. They had me feeding him medium rats...(He was only fed three times with med rats)

So now I am worried. Did I over fed him? I'm taking him to the vet again soon but I want a second opinion as I'm doing so cause so far one person says one thing and another says another and I want to be safe.

He's doing better now and is back to being lean and full, idk... He had a big bludge when he ate when he was on medium rats and then grew girth, with small rats it's a slight bulge and he does fine...I think he was being over fed.