I'm trying to decide if i should still wait until the weekend to feed Dio after finding out he was on way too small mice. He was fed 3 times in 10 days (2 of those feeds were only 24 hours apart) as we gave him extra as we were worried the mouse fluff wasn't big enough.
We've now got large mice (the shop didn't have any rats of the same size) but didn't know if to still leave it the 7 days. He fed last on monday.
He was being fed mice that were only about 5% (at the most) of his weight, he's only 200g. We now have mice that are more the weight he should be having, infact i'm going to be surprised if he'd manage to get it down. I'm just a bit worried that he's been under fed at the shop too though he doesn't seem under weight.
I saw that pic, and the big mouse looked like an ex-breeder - according to my supplier's guide 45g approx. Have you weighed these beasties?
If you can't get any intermediate prey would be better to feed him 2 smaller mice but at the same session, and don't worry if he refuses the 2nd. Long as there's something in his belly, he won't starve. Rats are even better, but early days yet.
I'll weigh them before i feed them too him. If it is too big then we have got 1 more small mouse left that he can have. We told the guys in southcoast exotics how big he was and they said he sould be on those ones. I'm sure they said it was a large mouse those does look bigger to me, infact it doesn't look far off being the same size as Asti my rat.
Should i wait?
Posted - 13/04/2011 : 19:56:39
