Originally Posted by dakski
You should be feeding one appropriately sized prey item, not two smaller items. They are harder to digest.
See the chart below of what size prey you should be feeding.
At his weight, he should get one weaned rat up to every 7 days (10 is fine). Soon, he can be on small rats (but I would move to every 10-14 days on that schedule). Never feed more than every 7 days.
I was going to ask if there's a reason you're doing two rat pups instead of just a weaned. Like Dakski said, I would move him up. My BP is about 417ish grams and has a weaned rat every 7 days except when he's in shed.
That being said, I sometimes see him have a bowel movement once every 1-2 weeks. Now this is different than when he was on fuzzy rats, and even different than when he was on pups. As Bogertophis said younger rats are more digestible so when he was smaller I saw a BM maybe every third or fourth feeding.
I don't think you have anything to worry about, but as suggested I'd up his prey size to one appropriately sized item vs multiples.
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