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View Poll Results: When to breed Rats?
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
as for bedding and food it depends on what you have. i have a 1.3 colony and i still have about 3/4 bale of pine that i bought almost two monts ago and i cleaned them weekly also as of right now a 25lb bag of mazuri lasts me 2 months. i paid $5 for the pine and $17 for the food.
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
I have heard that temperature and light can cause stress on rats which decreases their breeding potential. What temperature range is appropriate for a colony? 50-90°? 60-90°? I just built an 8-shelf breeding rack and the Edstrom automatic water system is to be delivered tomorrow. These guys are going to be in my patio storage closet! Lol.. I know, I know. Far from ideal, but I have to work with what space I have and I really don't want my place to smell like an ammonia factory..
I'll post pictures and a link to the design later today hopefully.. I think it should be quite an efficient system..
1.1 Pastels; Apollo and Athena
0.1 Spider; Arahni
0.1 Normal; Lucy
0.1 Albino Red Tail Boa; Annabelle
2.0 Orange Tabbys; Webster and Sebastian
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
I once saw a calculation that someone on here came up with that suggested how many breeder females you need per snake to keep feeders availaible. I have searched but can't find it. Any help?
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
We keep an average of 3-4 female rats for every snake we have to feed. Including babys and hatchlings.
This way you have one female in every stage of feeder production for every snake.
1-breeding
1-nursing/birthing
1-resting
1-growing up to replace retired breeders.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
Originally Posted by FatBoy
I once saw a calculation that someone on here came up with that suggested how many breeder females you need per snake to keep feeders availaible. I have searched but can't find it. Any help?
here you go,
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=52894
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
Originally Posted by jben
Thanks man.
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
So if I read that correctly, he has a male with a female for one week and the job gets done?? and then he moves him to the next female...
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Re: Best snake collection size to breed Rats?
Originally Posted by mommanessy247
i plan on starting my mouse breeding project next month so i will have feeder mice ready to go when i get my snake in august. i will only have the 1 snake but the mice at my local pet store cost $7.99 ea. (thats $39.95 for mice for 1 month x 12 months-thats $479.40 for mice for a year! way too much in my opinion). breeding just seems the better, easier & more cost effective way to go.
The rats your buying arn't meant to be feeders are they?
I've considered breeding my own feeders but I think it would cost to much and be to much work to breed mice for three snakes.
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