BP's weight and rat size

I wonder this cause I feed my BP 15-20g mice, he's 210g but he's not really growing I got him last June I think and he was 120g then and he was a few months old I believe, am I doing something wrong?

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10-15% of 210g is 21-31g You are feeding a touch light, what interval are you using, 5 days?

this video from Justin Kobylka's youtube page helped me develop an eye for gauging the "appropriate" size of feeders once I started keeping multiple balls of different ages and sizes. if nothing else, it's a good visual aid showing the sizes of rats and the disparity that is inherent in the naming of sizes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFB3P...ure=plpp_video

5 to 7, the petstore small rats are to big, I need to find a supplier

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You should not be even thinking of small rats they are adult animals breedable rats usually too large for under 500gm typically you should be looking at rat pups still nursing animals or small weanlings but even then they can be quite big.

The small rats I buy are all about 5 inches long not including the tail. Much bigger than mice ever get. My supplier they average close to 75gm each. A good meal for my adult snakes, my biggest female usually gets two every 7 days she is 3700 gm. It is just easier to buy all one size than multiple sizes for me.

Pinks, fuzzies, Pups, weaned, small, medium, large, xl, xxl, xxxl. I think you are calling pups or weaned, small rats :)

The problem with names personally I like going by weight there is no guessing. But by eye is very close too by name as you can see is an issue.

I don't really go by weight, or name.

I just 'eye' it, and guage my snakes responses. So far, all of my snakes have been doing just fine.

Then again, to each their own, as long as their collection remains healthy.

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Originally Posted by kitedemon

You must be getting really small smalls! There is a large difference between suppliers this illustrates why 'small for this size snake and medium for that' is so misleading! weight or diameter works 'name' does not.

My 300 gm girl is about 1 inch in diameter and the small rats I usually get are at least 2 inches in diameter and have a skull that is 1 wide. There is no way she would even try.

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In the store where i get my feeders they label them as small rats but from what you are saying they must be weaned rats. Thank for clearing that out for me though, because i was a bit confused about the sizes :D