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Okay, now i'm currious
Whenever I get a shipment of f/t rats, the first thing I do is take them out of their packaging, weigh each one, and sort them into labeled ziplock bags, divided into 5 gram increments (35-40, 41-45, 46-50, etc). It occurred to me just today that I've never heard of anyone else doing this, I just do it because apparently I need to micromanage what my snakes are eating down to the gram lol. Am I the only one, or do other herp keepers do this too?
Last edited by Lizardlicks; 07-01-2015 at 03:54 PM.
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Nope, just you LoL
I do that with all the rats I freeze off.
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Re: Okay, now i'm currious
I used to be more "selective" like that. I still am a little bit, but once they're on smalls/mediums I don't select-a-size ahead of time. I am just line them up by size from whatever I pull out of the freezer and feed my collection largest to smallest (females before males). We all have our routines.
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I separate mine into individual Ziplocs as well. However, I have no need to weigh since my snakes are full grown adults.
The one thing I found that you can count on about Balls is that they are consistent about their inconsistentcy.
1.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
Mack The Knife, 2013
Lizzy, 2010
Etta, 2013
1.1 Jungle Carpet Pythons
Esmarelda , 2014
Sundance, 2012
2.0 Common BI Boas, Punch, 2005; Butch, age?
0.1 Normal Ball Python, Elvira, 2001
0.1 Olive (Aussie) Python, Olivia, 2017
Please excuse the spelling in my posts. Auto-Correct is my worst enema.
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Re: Okay, now i'm currious
I freeze meling off in 10 gram intervals. For my small snakes and anything on small rats or more I don't tho. I always feed my females first as well if one of my males refuse leftovers gö to females.
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I do think I'm managing it MORE because they're still growing babies, so I want to know how much is going in and what they're getting out. They're still on weans, and got a bit more time before bumping up to smalls, (at which point I probably won't care so much).
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I just separate mine by eye, pinky,fuzzy,hopper, xtra small, small, medium, large, xtra large
How I started doing things and its worked so far
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