Simple question

Basically Ivan has last eaten two weeks ago. Being 178 grams he could easily take a larger rat fuzzy or even a smaller rat pup. One of my rats just had fifteen babies, and the other is pregnant. Should I feed him two of my day old pinkie rats (could stress the mother?) which would be ten grams together, or wait until Wednesday when I get home from my father's house and feed him a couple larger ones? Should be ten grams by then. If I feed him today i'll be feeding him again on Wednesday. My issue is will I have enough to feed both of them until the other has babies? Not sure if she's pregnant but I was saying that about the other one before she gave birth and the other had a male in with her for two weeks.

Wait, I feed 10-15 gram pinkies to 70 gram hatchlings, your snake should be eating 15-20 gram fuzzy rats at 178 grams.

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Wait, I feed 10-15 gram pinkies to 70 gram hatchlings, your snake should be eating 15-20 gram fuzzy rats at 178 grams.

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I know this, I was going off rodentpro.com sizes. They say pinkie rats are 3-8 grams, fuzzies are 9-19, and pups are 20-29. By these sizes I was saying he could eat a larger fuzzy 17-19 grams or a small pup 20-22 grams. I will take one out to weigh it when she gets off of them.

3 - 4 grams won't make any difference, if he'll take the larger go with those.

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

3 - 4 grams won't make any difference, if he'll take the larger go with those.

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It's not what size to feed him of course I would go with the bigger size if he would take them. He's taken a 70 gram small rat when that was all I had that's the last thing he ate cause it's all I had and it took him a week and a half to loss the excess fat that he had. I'm saying that I have fifteen one day old pinkies. Will it stress the mother if two of them disappear on the first day and never come back? And should I feed him today and again on Wednesday or just wait until Wednesday so they'll be bigger and I won't stress the mother?

Taking 2 pinkies away from the mother will not stress her out. Since you were concerned you'd run out of food before the other rat gave birth, feeding now or waiting is totally up to you. If my balls hadn't eaten in two weeks, i wouldn't wait though.

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Originally Posted by dart

Taking 2 pinkies away from the mother will not stress her out. Since you were concerned you'd run out of food before the other rat gave birth, feeding now or waiting is totally up to you. If my balls hadn't eaten in two weeks, i wouldn't wait though.

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Thank you, this is the answer that I was hoping for :)

That's odd. I put a pinkie rat in his tank and he wouldn't take it. He tried to bite my hand before he knew it was me but he wouldn't take the pinkie rat. He went right past it twice and the one time it was making lots of noise. Like he thought, this is way too small I have no interest.