I have two pastel female hatchlings that hatched on May 20.

I decided to feed one only mice and the other only rats. I have fed them at the same intervals and both are strong feeders. I have fed them approximately the same meal size in weight at each feeding.



The results:



The mouse eater has a current mass of 672 g (at ~4 1/2 months old)

The rat eater has a current mass of 643 g (at ~4 1/2 months old)



They are both huge and healthy, however it has cost me a little more to feed the mouse eater as she gets bigger (1 medium rat = $3 is equivalent to 3-4 mice = $4.50).



So there it is, it at least this really small sample size experiment, there is no difference between feeding rats and mice.
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• need ball python to gain weight - mark_andersen, Sun Oct 1 21:36:24 2006
• Switch to Rats.....................n/p - coldbloodaddict, Sun Oct 1 21:54:11 2006
• I actually have some pretty good data... - rwoodyer, Sun Oct 1 23:08:10 2006
• oops...on mice vs. rats - rwoodyer, Sun Oct 1 23:14:22 2006
• RE: need ball python to gain weight - reptilemadn, Sun Oct 1 22:38:50 2006
• for (reptilemadn) - mark_andersen, Mon Oct 2 19:49:06 2006
• RE: for (reptilemadn) - reptilemadn, Mon Oct 2 22:23:11 2006
• RE: for (reptilemadn) - mark_andersen, Tue Oct 3 18:50:11 2006
• RE: need ball python to gain weight - LibertyReptiles, Sun Oct 1 23:35:37 2006
• RE: need ball python to gain weight - Zefdin, Mon Oct 2 12:43:11 2006
• RE: need ball python to gain weight - melindas, Mon Oct 2 18:34:08 2006