feeding your feeders carrots??

I dunno about changing anyone's color, but rats and mices sure do love munching on carrots as a treat...=)

I've seen rats fight over the carrot...one will grab it and drag it around the cage - "My carrot! Back off!" :D

well they do have white bellies and mine has some "flames" of white part way up her side

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

I don't recommend feeding them only or mainly carrots. You'd end up with some very underweight and sickly poor feeders.

Also, why in the world would you want to change a ball pythons color this way?

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well if i do go thru with this... which wont be for a while lol ... i would most definatly give the mice suppliments to counter act the poor diet

Carotenoids have been shown to improve color expression. The only problem is that there aren't a terribly large amount of red pigments expressed in ball pythons. I can tell you a well rounded diet works wonders on boas though.

I think feeding your rodents only carrots is an awful idea. I feel like you're supplementing for the wrong reasons and are going to end up with not only feeders, but reptiles with metabolic deficiencies, and overall that would be considered inhumane.

If you're going to do something do it right, don't do it half assed to try and get ahead.