Can my 400 gram male take a small rat ?

A lot of this convo is based on what we consider a small rat. When I think of a small rat I think closer to the 100g mark. Some people consider smalls to be in the 50g range. Anyway after all of that honestly if I had a 400g male I would be feeding it 40-60g rats at the most. Its a male you dont need to push feed..they dont need to pack on the lbs like females

My smalls run 50-80, weans around 30-40. I'm not terribly worried about bulking him up, I just would rather feed him one rat instead of two pups. He just denied his first ever meal in the two months he's been with me, but I'll let that slide because he's been a champ so far.


My 580 female denied a small rat, and then a weaned, but I'm attributing that to bad timing because the day I offered the small she was deep in blue, and 5 days later when I offered the weaned there was a gift for me in her tub in addition to her shed, so I didn't expect her to want to eat.