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I'm happy to say that the 3 month old male, Goliath, ate a hopper with no problems. He wasted no time. After maybe two more feedings can I move him up to an adult mouse? Also, do you have a separate freezer for your rodents or you just keep them next to the stake and chicken?

Before I had my own feeder colonies I kept them right next to the other frozen stuff in my home. Keeps folks out of your freezer for sure.

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Originally Posted by jben

I'm happy to say that the 3 month old male, Goliath, ate a hopper with no problems. He wasted no time. After maybe two more feedings can I move him up to an adult mouse? Also, do you have a separate freezer for your rodents or you just keep them next to the stake and chicken?

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I would bump up to adult mouse or rat pup.

I have a couple of babies (one is 5 months old, the other is probably 6 months or the same age as the other) and they are currently feeding on rat pups with no hesitation at all. The Spider male used to be a trouble eater for me when I started out with him, but now he takes the rat pups with no trouble. I also switched my Pastel female over to F/T and she's currently eating rat pups as well. So, if a rat pup or adult mouse is about the same size as the largest part of the snake's body, go for it. I bet a 3 month old snake can definitely take a rat pup or adult mouse.

I don't use a separate freezer, I just put the rodents on the highest shelf in the freezer so no one freaks out LOL.

one of my pastels (11/02/09) ate f/t adult mice the day I got him.
He has since been bumped to f/t jumbo mice every 4 to 5 days.
btw, he is my avitar pastel.
:salute:

It's all relative.

I have frozen rat fuzzies, pups and smalls in the freezer (One that is used for food also, but is in the garage, not the house one). That's just what they were sold as, not really what their weights truely represent. I only have four now, so this process may change later, but I weigh the food based on the last weight I took of my snakes and try to get one around 15% of the snakes weight. That's really only for the three young females, the adult gets a small rat regardless of it's actual weight but I do keep track of the grams I feed him.