Picky Picky Picky

[SatanicIntention]

Mitch, all of my adult girls are on adult mice. They are bulky, muscley girls. Mice work JUST fine. Just feed 2-3, which will equal a good 65-70g rat, with less fat. With her size, I would go for 1-2 at first, then bump up to 3 large mice.

My 06 YB female is around the 1000g mark. She quit eating in a 32qt tub and would only take one per feeding. Not a whole lot of a feeding response either. I moved her to a 15qt tub in the same rack, left her alone for 2 weeks and now she's pounding food like nobody's business. She ate what, 3-4 large adult mice 2 nights ago. She's happy as far as I can tell.

These teenage phases are a pain. Work with them and find a combo they like. Stop trying to feed her all the time. Try every 2 weeks if you want. Get a live mouse and leave it in with her, bump her down a tub size, put newspaper balls in the tub, raise temps... whatever.

And believe me, she'll get to 2000g or better on mice just as quickly as she will on rats. All of my snakes are on f/t large adult hairless mice and man they attack me. I just go in the snakeroom now with a hot bucket of 100 nekkid mice and they go nuts. Got bit just opening a tub(from the underside mind you).