Well, I previously HAD a trio of ASFs. Everything is peachy, babies are born, they start to grow. I leave, I come home and it's like Jamestown. Everyone is dead. Well, let me scratch that. Babies are MIA assumed eaten and all three adults are dead.

I have no clue what happened. My other animals are fine, I have used no chemicals, I fed nothing different, no temp changes no environmental changes. Nothing. Incredibly frustrating. I was really hoping for these guys to take off since I have an unbelievably picky het pied male that I LOVE the pattern on but he's only gained 67 grams since I've had him.

So, much to my husbands dismay I am going to start on breeding regular rats again, if I can get a hold of the friends I got the ASFs from I might try again but I don't particularly like having critters die with no explanation (though my first trio did well until he mistakenly fed them off). The enclosure they were in has been disposed of just in case there was something odd in there.