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Syco,



I believe this is going to be a care-giver's preference issue as well as what prey item your BP ends up preferring. You’re fortunate you have your own supply of mice, which is definitely a point in your favor. There are many keepers who feed only mice to their breeder-sized BP's with great results. Obviously, in the case of mice, you will have to provide more mice as the BP grows. But, IMO, your BP may have an easier time digesting the several smaller items than one larger one.



For instance, my three BP's won't take a medium rat. But they will take a small rat (~ 85 grams). So to compensate, I feed them two small rats, spread a couple days apart. They actually end up eating more gram-wise this way than if I gave them a medium rat once a week. And it seems they digest them much quicker this way.



I've included a link I found to a recent paper done on nutrient composition of prey. I believe one of the on-line rodent suppliers has a link to a similar paper. I'll post that when I find it.

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