Quote Originally Posted by whispersinmyhead View Post
Great story. Looks like beautiful healthy snake now and in a short amount of time.

Gives me another option with mine if she doesn't start eating for me. Are ASF's readily available or hard to find? Expensive?
Thanks...They are difficult but not impossible to find. Your best bet is to search on craigslist. That's how I found mine. type in ASF under the pets search section and you should pull something up. I got mine for $4.00 each. I recently found a guy who sells them for $2.00 each. They are smaller as adults and grow a lot slower than normal rats. it take about 3-4 months from birth to get to about 70grams. full adult size is about 100grams. I breed them now and have to still buy large ones until my weened ones get bigger. another benefit too is that they have little to no smell. I clean their cage about once every 7-10 days and even then it doesn't smell. a Norwegian rat would stink up the neighborhood in 3 days. here is a website that tells about them and some breeders who have them http://www.sapphiretigress.com/Softfurs.htm

funny story...just this week I met a guy who has 3 picky eaters and they missed breeding season because they went off feed. I brought over some soft furs and 2 of the 3 ate right away, he about fell over because they hadn't eaten in months either.