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Originally Posted by Terranaut
Well I would rather buy 1 500g rat than 10 50g mice. The price is 60% less ...well here anyway.
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I agree.
Also, perhaps some more resources would be needed to make this a scientific paper :P ... but I think the OP is trying to make a fair statement...
Based off nothing but personal experience and talking with a large number or breeders and keepers, we have found snakes that eat rats to grow significantly faster than those feeding on mice. However.. part of this is certainly that many snakes won't take a large number of prey items... so often times the mouse eater will eat 2 mice then stop... which is not equivalent to a medium rat.
Also... this is really more important from a breeding standpoint where you're growing your animals up with time as a factor. In the wild snakes certainly don't have consistent, scheduled feedings and their prey items vary. Therefore, I would say that feeding your snake mice isn't harming it per se. It just most likely won't grow as quickly... and could get expensive as an adult, depending on the species.
Overall, I liked this post. And.. it generated a conversation about it, which is always good for learning.
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