need help to differ

i bought a mouse from the store, and im not sure if its a hopper or not. how do i tell? i have pics i could show if anybody could tell the difference? n sorry about the topic, i didnt know where else to put it.

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ok, sorry about the bad picture, i had pics on my digital camera but i cant find the usb cord, so i took the pic with my cell phone.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2283/...2031713pq9.jpg

and the mouse wouldnt stop moving around, so i had to cup my hands kinda, cuz the cell phone had a delay on the picture, umm for a little instance on size, im 6'1 and i can palm a basketball so my hands are fairly bigger then most people, but the reason i ask is my snake has never refused a meal, and people say its normal but it just dont seem like her, and i think this mouse possibly not being a hopper has something to do with it, but i could possibly be wrong, i dont know anything about mice. and the guy workign int he store was new and didnt seem like he knew what he was doing and when i asked for a hopper, thats what he gave me.

Looks like a young adult maybe. Hoppers are young mice, before weaning age.

thats what i thought, thats probably why my snake wouldnt eat, ill see if they will take it back, and ill try to get something a bit smaller. or if not ill just buy another swap them out and bring it back.

Sub-adult IMO how much does it weigh?

If he's about the same size as the largest part of your snake, you could safely feed it to him.

looks like a young mouse to me, a hopper would probably have hopped out of your hand.

yea it didnt try to hop out of my hand or bite me, which ih was surprised, im not sure how much it weighs, i dont even have a scale in the house that could weigh it lol. its probably a bit bigger then the largest part of my snake, so she probably could safely eat it, but shes very picky. thanks all for your help.

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Originally Posted by nova2door

looks like a young mouse to me, a hopper would probably have hopped out of your hand.

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Lol yeah they are called hoppers for a reason! :D

And they keep hopping the little :cens0r: until around weaning age, and I hate it! :rage: I sit there and have them walk around on my hand for a little bit so that I can sex them and separate the females from the males and all of the sudden SWOOSH and it's gone! And they are damn fast! :rage:

So for me, I don't separate them anymore. :D

P.S Sorry for OT

I had a weanling escape the other day when I was trying to sex it to know which grow up tank to put it in. I have seen it, put out humane traps, but so far have not caught it.

Back on topic - I agree with those that say that mouse is probably a bit older than a hopper. Your BP probably could eat it, unless she is a very new hatchling and/or very small. However, if she is refusing it, she might feel more secure with a smaller meal. Or it might be something like she is in shed, or any number of other reasons why she refused it.

Can you post a picture of the snake?

Are we talking about an anaconda here?

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Originally Posted by Jenn

Are we talking about an anaconda here?

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Good catch! I could have sworn it said BP in one of the OPs posts. If it isn't a BP, disregard what I said about the appropriateness of the size of the mouse.

Definitely looks like a sub-adult.