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I'd say one adult mouse every 7 days or 1 hopper every 4 days.
I have mice. Everyone says rats smell less. Personally I don't know. I just have a small colony of mice in my garage. They are kept clean and because they are in the garage my house doesn't smell like mice. works good.
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also, I just read one of the caresheets on here and read something kind on concerning. It said 75 or below is unhealthy for ambient temps. My hot side stays at a good 90-92, but cool side stays at about 73 most of the time 75+ on a warm day. I live in upstate NY so it gets kinda cold up here. Should I be concerned?
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it means you have a chance at producing a clown.
a snake that is heterozygous for the clown gene has a 50% chance of giving that gene to any offspring it produces. To produce a clown(homozygous for the clown gene) you need both parents to give the clown gene to the child. Since each heterozygous snake has a 50% chance of giving the clown gene, you have a 1-in-4 chance of getting a clown from each egg.
This does NOT mean that if you have 8 eggs that 2 are guaranteed to be clowns, it just is a probability. You can luck out or get unlucky.
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so 50% hets would make 1 and 8 chance?
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Hi,
No that's not what 50% het means I'm afraid.
The animal itself is either 100% het or not het at all - but you can't tell just by looking which one is which.
50% het just means that in theory 50% of the offspring from the adults paired would be het for the trait and, since you cant tell which is which, if you just randomly pick one there is a 50% chance you will pick one of the 100% hets.
Does that make sense? :weirdface
dr del
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As far as your rats question... rats are not as stinky as mice but they are still stinky. But, if you get the African Soft Furred rats (great for african snakes like ball pythons) then they are not stinky at all. I have ASF rats for pets and they just hang out in their tub on a side table in the family room. I have pet hamsters as well (really stinky!) and I use this PDZ powder on the bottom of the substrate where they usually pee to zap out the stink. You can use it for the mice/rats as well if you don't want the ASF.
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ok i don't get the het thing at all....thats confusing stuff. Where do you get ASF's? And do they get as big as normal rats?
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He's a cute little pastel :D I got two baby ball's a while back at about that same size (they were only hmm..a month, month and a half old I think) I started them on rat pups, they're perfect! Now they're on to hoppers, makes me more sad cuz these ones look so adorable..:( but anywho! Mice stink like mad, compared to rats. I used to have a gigantic 60+ colony of mice and yea, major stank. I've noticed when I buy rats that it's not so bad, and I only really caught on to the difference when one day I had to buy a large feeder mouse because they didn't have any small rats, and within fifteen minutes of being in my truck, all I could smell is rodent. That was the first time I'd ever smelt anything, and it was the first time I had a mouse in my truck. Nasty lil buggers, but they make up for it by being cute as hell :D
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yeah I went to a petshop last night and looked at all their sizes and those hoppers are cute man lol. We ended up getting a mouse fuzzy, I offered it to him just cuz he took a huge poop and wondered if he maybe hungry, but he didn't take it. So I gave it to my other. She made it look so easy cuz shes used to adult mice, she swallowed it in like 3 seconds lol. Yeah I baught a bunch of mice (3female 1 male) to breed but now I'm re-thinking cuz of the smell...whats with these ASF's though? Where do you get them? And whats the difference between them and normal rats?
