Well tonight was the big night, the switch from mice to rats.
Ozzy is about 8mos old and I had him on adult mice up until now because I am of the school that adult mice have more calcium than weaned rats so I held on until I thought he was big enough for a small adult rat.
And him being Ozzy he wasn't gonna miss a meal and after a moment or two checking it out ( it was a brown rat, no less) he nailed it and tried to eat it butt first, after a few mins. he whipped it around and took it head first.
Now some of you know how I always say he has such a small head and pencil thin neck, well I didn't think it could expand that much but it did.
Put him back in his cage and he went right to the water and drank for like 3-4 mins straight then went right to the hot hide and is napping.
So hopefully he was made the switch