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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by martinking6[/i] [br]Hiya A bit of advise please, as title says ive finally managed to get earl onto rats after a lot of trying To do this ive been feeding him every 7 days on his favoured adult mice weighing between 32g and 34g for 1 week and a couple of rat fuzzies the next week to try to give him a taste for rat, normally when offered a rat other than the small fuzzies he would just sniff the rat offered and literally run away so after a month or so of alternating the feeding as above tried him on a rat weighing 49g so perfect to keep him going for a while as earl weighed in at 408g before this feed [:)] My question is would you leave him 10 days between feeds now or stick to 7 days as this feed is considerably bigger than normal and I don`t want him getting overweight, he is out of his viv on a daily basis apart from the obvoius 2 days after feeding and gets quite lively when out so has plenty of exercise, what ya all reckon ? Martin [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.