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ADAM: I was in no way trying to say your experince was wrong I just wanted to let franky know my concern wasnt with growing. after your response I felt more at ease about feeding multiple prey items. Thanks for taking the time to reply, and I opologize if you thought I was trying to shrug of what you said.

Sorry maybe I worded that wrong (I'm melting in the summer heat and I think my brain is turning into goo!). What I meant by that post wasn't that you were wanting to grow your snake fast but that Robin (rabernet) and I recently compared a few of our snakes that were the same sex and general age. We found that me feeding single rats and her feeding multipe mice hadn't created snakes with any real appreciable size difference.

Just my convulated way of saying your snake would grow fine on either. (please somebody up there break this heat wave before more of my brain cells fry!)

i know the feeling with the heat its not much better here in W.va lol I know that ball pythons can stay on mice there whole life how ever rats would be more convinent also. I wait about 10 mins between feeding each mouse off so if i end up feedin more then 3 thats alot of time to do so. I have no problem with naga being a mouser but I do want to keep my options open right now taking the time to feed multipule mice is not an issue however that could change later on, I am hoping to have naga with me for many years to come!

I have live rats in Fairmont if that does you any good.

If so shoot me a pm.

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Originally Posted by Kesosip

i know the feeling with the heat its not much better here in W.va lol I know that ball pythons can stay on mice there whole life how ever rats would be more convinent also. I wait about 10 mins between feeding each mouse off so if i end up feedin more then 3 thats alot of time to do so. I have no problem with naga being a mouser but I do want to keep my options open right now taking the time to feed multipule mice is not an issue however that could change later on, I am hoping to have naga with me for many years to come!

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Kesosip, as Adam said - mice are just fine. All of my juveniles (over a year old) are eating 2 mice each week (on the same day) and are growing quite well.

I also think you're confusing feeding on several days in the same week with feeding multiples on the same day with being hard on the digestive system.

I generally wait until they've re-adjusted their jaws and are back in hunt position before offering the second. I'd say that's 3-5 minutes after the tail of the first is gone. My largest female that's not on rats is almost 900 grams now and is only on two adult mice a week.

I don't see rats being more convenient if they aren't readily available.

I guess the good news is, mice or rats, your snake will do well with either!