Marble is around 360ish grams and gets one weaned rat every five days or so. Pretty chill when handled, but getting increasingly aggressive with her feeds. In fact, if I'm not quick enough to get the rat heated and in the tank before she loses patience, she climbs up and snatches it right out of my hand. She doesn't always understand things like gravity and distance, so there've been a few collisions with the bookshelf. Marble is a beloved derp.
Anywho, she 'kills' her rats very quickly, making sure to crush the spine and starts eating in minutes, as opposed to the half hour or so she usually takes before actually eating it. Then, not even two hours later, she's back in her branch in her 'FEED ME' pose. She'll spend the next few days with her neck sticking out of her den, watching everything I do. She's a little over a year old and between two and three feet long. She won't hold still long enough to be measured.
Should I start giving her two rats per feed instead of one? Or bump her up to smalls? I don't know if I want to up the frequency of her feeds, because I've heard that can be stressful.
Also, she fell into the water bowl with her rat last time and kept wrestling with it. I think she may have even learned to swim^^p
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