So Darth is 6 months old, he weighs about 250 grams and eats a mouse every 5 days. The pet store was out of mice the other day. Usually I'll just get a couple hoppers but they were out of hoppers too so I got him a rat. The rat was quite a bit bigger than the usual mice he eats but it seemed sort of small for a rat so I got it. I brought the rat home, put it in Darth's tub, put the lid back on and it immediately crawled up the thermostat wire I have taped to the side of the tub and clung to it up near the lid of the tub. Darth isn't used to searching for his food since normally he pounds the mice the second they hit the floor of the tub. But he saw the rat and stared at it for a minute as if he were sizing it up then struck at it. The rat put up much more of a struggle than the mice do but it did not injure Darth and he eventually killed it. It took him quite a while to swallow the rat but he did and he seems to be doing fine. Should I start him on rats now or is it too early still?