what size rat would you guess?

Bought my rat pups today! Gonna try - any tricks of the trade I should know about - I am currently thawing 1 rat pinkie 1 hopper mouse and 1 rat pup so any advice would be appreciated - I figure I'll scent the pup with the mouse and try him first - if that doesn't work I'll feed the hopper and follow with the rat pink. Any help or advice would be appreciated! :)

You could try just tossing in the rat without any scenting or tricks, for the first time. Icc could very well take it without needing to be tricked into doing so. IF he refuses it, wait a week, and THEN try scenting it. By then, he'll be a little bit hungrier, too, and maybe more willing to take something new.

FOLLOW UP! : just an FYI for anyone in a similar situation he took down a f/t rat pup (barely fuzzy with eyes barely open (closed anyway because he was f/t) - all I had to do was scent the head of the pup slightly with a f/t hopper mouse (his previous prey item of choice) the shiny coin is a quarter for reference.

FOR NEW PEOPLE! : Also for the new owners (like I am) the pup will look four times the size of the snakes head to your eyes - I couldn't imagine him being able to get it down, in fact as i was trying I figured he wouldn't even strike thinking the prey item was too large but after about three minutes he struck and missed and about five minutes later he nailed it and to my amazement got it all the way down without much struggle. So to you other newbies it may look too big but as long as it's no larger than the thickest part of your snake plus 10% it'll be fine. I checked today and no regurge, just a fat and happy snake :)

- just a little re cap of what I learned -