Posted by:
daveboyle
at Thu Jun 12 15:24:38 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by daveboyle ]
Right on...
there are a few things we all can do to prevent these problems..
1) the "40-400" rule advocated by some here - 40" long, 400 g in weight before you breed a female king. yes you might have to wait until "next season", but not too many colubrids are bringing in big bucks right now anyways so what is the rush?
2) as suggested, bigger enclosures, time out of the enclosure to stretch, exercise, get some fresh air.
3) get a little scientific, use the metabolic rate formula put forth by rossi and mader in their books to estimate your animals'
caloric requirements.Simple with a calculator.Then you can buy and feed the appropriate amount of rodents.
4) Keep good records.
-all I can think of right at the moment.
Dave B
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