Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
While the nutritional value is indeed different there is absolutely no study that proves that feeding rats is better, no studies have been made on snake nutritional requirements either.

Gram per gram of prey it's all the same the main difference is whether you want to feed 1 prey or several preys each week as the animal grows.

Obviously the ability to feed one prey instead of several is a great reason to switch to rat however it is not mandatory to do so.
Thats why I said just what it seems like to me. According to rodent pro the nutritional values seem to be the same. Just stating iv had a boa and ball that hit "growth spurts" soon as i switched to rats. and many other people have said they noticed "rapid" growth when switching to rats from mice. No study here just saying in 2 months my boa grew 2x the amount he did in 6-8 months on mice