Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear with my response. What I meant was no you do not need to remove the rat, it won't hurt either your snake or your colony.



I also had pet rats when I was younger, and often would see rats develop the tumor/cyst. I had one male I took in from a pet store that had a cyst the size of a small golf ball. Instead of letting it be used as a feeder, we took it in to let it live out the last part of it's life.. within a month the tumor was over the size of a baseball. Was pretty sad to see really.



The rat ate and moved around with apparently no pain. I took it to the vet and he said it could not be removed due to position/size and that the rat would not live much longer. It lived about another 3 months and finally passed away.



This rat was also an albino. Kinda interesting.
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• tumor in rat - burmmania, Sun Oct 15 22:46:52 2006
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• No harm to snakes then? - burmmania, Mon Oct 16 11:00:43 2006
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