From large chicken peeps, hissers, and jumbo mice that the time to digest is longer, the frequency of her crapping dropped to once every 3-6 days, instead of once every 2-3 days. She spends more time basking by far with large rats than with multiple smaller meals. Right after the long basking she heads underground where it is coolest.

I myself like the sale price from Rodentpro on large rats, in fact Sobeks 4ft 1 inch 11.5lb uncle (Shadow) eats the same large rats. Shadow burns them off faster than Sobek on average, of course he has been eating more lately.

Just make sure the temps are available for her to use. I believe Sobeks basking spot is now 134-140f (kinda hard to lower it much more with the size of her). Shadows is the same, and so is Zeus basking spot. I might raise the temps of all 3 as theyve used basking temps up to 174f or more at times.

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• To SHvar or anyone(feeding trouble) - BRG, Fri Apr 15 14:58:46 2005
• RE: To SHvar or anyone(feeding trouble) - FR, Fri Apr 15 18:14:06 2005
• RE: Thanks FR - BRG, Sat Apr 16 01:49:16 2005
• RE: To SHvar or anyone(feeding trouble) - rope, Fri Apr 15 19:58:27 2005
• RE: Hi Rope, long time no see or hear! n/p - FR, Fri Apr 15 21:17:54 2005
• I noticed when I switched Sobek to large rats at 6ft long.. - SHvar, Fri Apr 15 22:03:11 2005
• RE: Thanks for the info. n/p - BRG, Sat Apr 16 01:51:49 2005