Increasing Portion Size ?

[BillinIndiana]

So far, my daughter and I's BP is eating every week. She weighs 95 grams and all we had to feed her were 6 gram fuzzy mice.. She is eating well though, she'll eat three in one feeding..
Now my question. There's a show coming up and we'll be buying some more frozen mice/rats. What size should I move her up to? I don't want to change something and make her refuse meals..

[rabernet]

I START all my hatchlings on Hopper mice (larger than a fuzzy) and after the third meal, they ate taking weanling rats (equivalent age as oyse Hopper but closer to the size of a small medium mouse.

If she's eagerly taking those fuzzies, consider rats. I know Petsmart sells frozen mice if you get in a pinch.

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[BillinIndiana]

I START all my hatchlings on Hopper mice (larger than a fuzzy) and after the third meal, they ate taking weanling rats (equivalent age as oyse Hopper but closer to the size of a small medium mouse.

If she's eagerly taking those fuzzies, consider rats. I know Petsmart sells frozen mice if you get in a pinch.

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Do you mean Fuzzy rats?

[rabernet]

No, I mean small rat weanling.

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[BillinIndiana]

No, I mean small rat weanling.

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Wow really? This site called AmericanRodent says their weanlings are 30-45 grams, that's quite a bit over that 15% of her body weight rule I read about.

[rabernet]

Well, you've been feeding her mouse fuzzies, so she really hasn't put much weight on. Get Her some mouse hoppers, some small mice and some rat weanling. I'd ony get about two weeks worth of the mouse Hopper and small mouse size and the rest in rat weanling to hold you until you can get more.

On four weeks, she should be appropriately sized for the rat weanling. Or, just get fat rat fuzzies for about four weeks, then rat weanling after that.

I don't weigh my rodents. When I say rat weanling, and about a week after eyes and ears are open is the size.

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[BillinIndiana]

Oh, so you breed your own food then.. Those charts are always different I would guess.. Here's the American Rodent's

				Shipping Not Included
Size	Wt / Length	Per Bag**	0 - 999	1,000 - 2,499	2,500 +	Minimum Order $100
Pinkie	4 - 10 grams 1.50 - 2.00 inches	50	$0.50	$0.45	$0.40
Fuzzy	10 - 20 grams 2.00 - 2.50 inches	50	$0.70	$0.65	$0.65
Pup	20 - 30 grams 2.50 - 3.50 inches	50	$0.85	$0.70	$0.60
Weanling	30 - 45 grams 3.50 - 4.50 inches	25	$1.15	$1.15	$1.15
Small	50 - 75 grams 4.50 - 5.25 inches	25	$1.25	$1.25	$1.25
Small Plus	75 - 95 grams 5.25 - 6.00 inches	25	$1.60	$1.60	$1.60
Medium	100 - 195 grams 6.00 - 8.00 inches	10	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00
Large	200 - 295 grams 8.00 - 9.00 inches	5	$2.25	$2.25	$2.25
Jumbo	300 - 395 grams 9.00 - 11.00 inches	5	$2.50	$2.50	$2.50
Super Jumbo	400+ grams 11.00 - 13.00 inches	3	$3.50	$3.50	$3.50

[captainjack0000]

If you have a ~100g snake, then why not get rat fuzzies based on your chart? Get some of those, some pups and some weanlings. If she grows quickly, you can double up on the fuzzies to use them up, or if she is slower growing, then keep the bigger prey until you need them.

I'm a bit paranoid about using mice (see my post about breaking a mouser). I would get your animal on rats and keep it on rats.

[SlitherinSisters]

I would get her something bigger too, and would switch her to rats if you think she will do it just fine. At almost 100 grams she could eat a small mouse. I feed my 75-100 gram babies a crawling rat pup, one with hair, but the eyes/ears haven't opened yet. They are fairly big, but it's better for the prey to be slightly thicker than your snake rather than slightly thinner. You want to see the bump in the snake when it eats.

[PorcelainxDoll]

I know how you feel on being confused by rat sizes. At my local,pet shop they have rat pups but they are big! Bigger then what i think my lil guys can handle.

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