Quote Originally Posted by tmlowe5704
A month without poop is okay. As far as the weight gain goes, has he literally not gained a single gram or is it just minimal? If he will eat mice, stick with that. There are pics all over this forum that compare rat feeders to mice feeders and the difference is almost non existant.
I would like to stick with rats because he seems to get very confused when it comes to taking a second prey item (which he'd have to do when he gets older if I stayed with mice), last time he wouldn't take a second at all (granted, he was in shed). I've been feeding multiple for the past few weeks with the rat pinks and he will take the first on with gusto, but he seems confused when I give him a second one. He tend to try to eat it backwards, and was dragging it around the cage once and overall it seems less stressful for him to eat just one prey item rather than having to feed muliple mice in the future. If I must, I would want to switch back and forth (which so far he hasn't had a problem with), but I have to use these eventually becase I have four of them now and no one else to feed them to.
With the weight gain, I haven't gotten a great scale yet and it only reads by 10 gram increments so that he hasn't gained or lost more than 10 grams is all I can say for certain.
When I switched to rats I asked what size I should feed and was told rat pups and spent weeks trying to find themand now I'm confused again.
Everything else is going so smoothly except the food size issues. If it weren't so cold out I'd see if I could bring him to a local breed so he could see him in person and get a better idea, but that is def. not happening in this weather.