Time to bump up Snickers' prey size or not?

[VEXER19]

Arctic Mice is crap. Especially when buying from petstores.

When they unload the trucks, boxes sit till their opened and put away. Ive had customers tell me how they buy mice from petco and their semi hard/soft. This is dangerous for your snakes gut.

Yea when I first tried f/t I bought those and thy were awful. But now I have to feed live due to my picky girl. She wouldn't eat those things just constrict destroy and slither away.

[Skittles1101]

He doesn't look underweight to me either, just small I guess. Probably wouldn't hurt to bulk him up a little bit though...

[SpencerShanks]

Thanks errbody for the input. Scared me at first, but it's all good now haha.
Unfortunately, right now Arctic Mice is my only option. My parents would never give in to buying live every week, and to my knowledge there aren't any local rat breeders that I could buy from. However, my friend's dad's friend (also my sister's ex's dad's friend, and my dad's friend's friend heehee) knows a guy in the area that breeds balls, so it's not unlikely that he breeds rats. I'll try to get in contact with him.

Returning the thread to the OP now

[angllady2]

Just a bit of advice.

If you don't have a scale for whatever reason, I judge by the feeding bulge. If you feed prey that is big enough to leave a nice little bulge in your ball that lasts for a day or so, you are feeding enough.

Think thanksgiving dinner, not hot-dog eating contest.

Gale

[KatStoverReptiles]

I have no idea...I don't have one of those scales. I read on here that if you don't have one of those scales you should feed roughly the same sized frozen/thawed prey as the snake's girth.

As Daybreaker said 3 pages ago... ^^ this is correct. You could also feed something that's slightly larger than she is around. So I guess the short answer to your question is: yes, up the prey size.

[Superpop]

Thanks everyone!

We fed Snickers her last mouse tonight.(we only buy 3 at once because we don't want them to stay in the freezer too long and become "freezer-burnt".)

We are going to up her prey-size to the smallest kind of rats now....any idea what they are called?(with mice it's pinky, hopper, adult)

Also we have a friend who comes over here frequently and she has a digital gram scale that she uses to weigh her food so we will have her bring it over next time so we can weigh Snickers and her prey.

[Superpop]

^^

Forgot "fuzzy" for mice sizes.

What are the sizes of rats?

[Daybreaker]

^ Pinky rats, Fuzzy rats, Pups, Weanling/Weaners, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large/Jumbo...

[Superpop]

^ Pinky rats, Fuzzy rats, Pups, Weanling/Weaners, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large/Jumbo...

Thanks!

Quick question....I probably won't be able to weigh Snickers or her prey before the next time I buy her prey.

Since her current prey size is adult mice I am guessing "pinky" and "fuzzy" rats are smaller than adult mice....

What size rat is the smallest size of rats that is bigger than an adult mouse?


I will get Snickers weighed as soon as I can but in the meantime I want to bump up to the next prey size but I am guessing pinky and fuzzy rats are still smaller than adult mice.

[Gbusiness]

Ween rat is the first size (has some hair but is blind and pink). I would think it has more meat then a adult mouse (adult mice seem to be all puff with all that hair.) My normal bp can handle them and he/she is probably only 1.5" in diameter,girth probably 2-2.5".