Anyone else breeding pygmy mice?

I am averaging the documented 3 babies per litter. I have converged my 3 colonies to one huge one 6.18 and they are in a 75 gallon community tank. We average about 50 babies per month with a max of 58 one month.

Main feed is finch feed. water is provided in a dish.

I changed from offering a dish of mealworms to dubia roaches weekly.

They're kept in my reptile room which has am bient of 73 degrees. I use flex watt on a dimmer on one side and have a gradient of 88-75 in the tank.

so anyone have a different setup?

Hows the smell???
I was thinking about them for my House snakes...
And pictures plox :D

Mine drink from a regular water bottle, and get my mouse mix as feed. They don't seem to like the dog food much though. :P

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Originally Posted by Aes_Sidhe

Hows the smell???
I was thinking about them for my House snakes...
And pictures plox :D

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smell is pretty much non existant. I was cleaning their 10 gallon tanks every 2 months. The larger tank I bet will probably last even longer if I want it to.

I was using the bird watering gravity units. Water dishes are working fine, no losses.

Do you have to clean the dishes often?
That would be my main worry about a dish. The tiny bottle I have in my pygmy colony lasts forever, I only have to refill it maybe once a month, or even less, and it's only like a 6 oz bottle.

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Originally Posted by Rhasputin

Do you have to clean the dishes often?
That would be my main worry about a dish. The tiny bottle I have in my pygmy colony lasts forever, I only have to refill it maybe once a month, or even less, and it's only like a 6 oz bottle.

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I use disposable plastic dishes. if they look dirty, I toss them. I change my food and water daily. Remember, i am only dealing with one cage.

Here's my old setup. I had a total of 6 of these. (1.3)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/IMG_1393.jpg

See pygmy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/IMG_1388.jpg
Size comparison (normal toilet paper roll tube) That's an adult!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/IMG_1390.jpg
Peek-a-Boo!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/IMG_1389.jpg

The new setup

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...pygmysetup.jpg

Today's harvest

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...life/baby3.jpg

Hungry kids

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...e/eyelash2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...e/eyelash1.jpg

I've been wanting to start a colony of these for some time but can never find them in north central florida. I'm envious of ya'll, thanks for sharing.