Successful F/T conversion!

When I first got my girl Cersei, she was started on F/T. I was getting a large mouse from petco around $4/each. A few months later, we move into a new place and there is a pet shop that sells live feeders less than 5 minutes away so it was easier and cheaper to feed her live. I then purchased my male, Kingslayer, April of this year and he was around the same size as my girl so they both ended up on live weened rats. Fast forward to the present, they are both on small rats that were costing me around $8 for the pair each week.

Well I recently came across post on here of someone selling F/T feeders super cheap near me. The post was around 2 years old but I still ended up emailing him and sure enough he was still in business. So I drove down, picked up some F/T small rats, enough to last a few months. Headed home and heated two of them up to 103F and withing seconds both my snakes took them. I am so happy they did not put up a fuss! After 6 months of live feedings, they took F/T on their first try.

Only thing I did was skip their meal last week in order to make sure they were nice and hungry!

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Now, I know my boy will stay on small rats for the rest of his life, but when would it be a good time to switch my girl to medium rats? She currently at around 1100g. What would be a good weight to switch them to medium rats?

Congrats!

I think my adult female is around 1625g and she's on small mediums. Like, 100g to 120g. If you are feeding 10% of her body weight, she could have 100g rats. I was told never to go above small mediums with a female, unless they are huge.

BTW, GORGEOUS snakes!! Wouldn't mind seeing more pics!! Are you going to breed them?

Beautiful snakes and congrats! Please post more pics. :)


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Originally Posted by Yzmasmom

I think my adult female is around 1625g and she's on small mediums. Like, 100g to 120g. If you are feeding 10% of her body weight, she could have 100g rats. I was told never to go above small mediums with a female, unless they are huge.

BTW, GORGEOUS snakes!! Wouldn't mind seeing more pics!! Are you going to breed them?

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Yup, Planning on breeding them as soon as shes up to weight. Just wanting to expand my collection.

Nice looking BPs, and congrats on the conversion! :)

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Originally Posted by Rikoku

Yup, Planning on breeding them as soon as shes up to weight. Just wanting to expand my collection.

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What are they? It's hard for me to tell exactly from the pictures. Lesser and Pastel?
EDIT : no, it can't be a pastel.

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Originally Posted by Mangiapane85

What are they? It's hard for me to tell exactly from the pictures. Lesser and Pastel?
EDIT : no, it can't be a pastel.

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My Boy, on the left side of the pic is a Pastave (Mojave and Pastel) Het Hypo. My Girl on the right is just a Pastel.

Congrats.

I do exactly what that other guy does. I order a few hundred dollars worth of f/t even though I only need small pinkies and hoppers, and I divide shipping across the others and sell them locally.