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RE: Good bye stillwater hypo bulls

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Posted by: Phil Peak at Mon Nov 2 20:10:18 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Phil Peak ]  
   

This is my opinion and others may disagree, but my Pits never see a mouse - ever. I start hatchlings on rat pinks and progress to crawlers/ pups/ smalls and and on towards medium adults. I have often read on this board in particular all the advice on raising Pits slow and cringed. These are large robust animals with a high metabolism. Quite simply, they need food to prosper. I sometimes get e-mails from some of my maintenance diet friends here telling me how their snakes did not survive the winter or failed to reproduce.

My snakes breed every year and do not die over winter. I have big hulking animals that are prime specimens. My advice to you is up grade the meal size on your animals and you will see positive results.

Phil

   

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