problem with that is i cant have a colony of rats where i live for VARIOUS reasons.

Honestly, i always said to myself i would only result to ASF's as a last result, as in, he hasent eaten ANYTHING in like a year. But then again, Vic's eating habit, this 30g mouse once a month deal, is no good. I mean i see some of you guys posting up pics of your 8 month old BP's and they are huge. My BP is right around 1 yr 6 months old, and he is no where near what i see as the "standard" weight. And u can see it in his body he is not as thick as he should be.

Right now he is still in feeding mode, and has been since last night. At least an hour after i took the rat out of the tank he came back out i guess looking to try again. And i know Vic, before when i have offered a rat and he got scared and went back in his hide and came back out, it was usually a "let me see if that big rat monster is still out there" and then there is the "im hungry, let me try again". The way i know is that he is in the "im hungry let me try again" is because when i put my fingers infront of him in his tank he looks straight at it and flicks his tongue and moves towards it and follows my hand. When he is on his "let me see if that big rat monster is still out there" he would never do that and just at the sight of something (my hand, or the noise from me removing the tank cover) he would quickly retreat back to his hide, as if "ok he is still out there, let me hide!"


Ill be buying a larger size cage critter today and filling it up with some aspen bedding and making sure that i place every ASF i buy in there for a few hours before offering it to him, that way if in the near future i have no way of getting my hands on ASF's i can atleast try and place a rat in that bedding getting that asf scent in them, in the hopes he mistakens the rat for a ASF.