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RE: Size of prey.

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Posted by: nile_keepr at Thu Oct 18 12:44:11 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nile_keepr ]  
   

Instead of going straight to big ass rats; try slowly going from small mice to medium rats- something like 8 mice to 4 rats; then increase the size, 3 bigger rats, then 2.

Will get your animal used to larger food items slowly.

Also, as the fella above said, you can prolly slow the feeding slightly- the equivalent of 8 mice, 2 times per day is ALOT; depending on the size of the monitor- im guessing this is a big fella though, so maybe not.

   

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