For the past several months I've been trying to switch my kunashir island ratsnakes from f/t mice to f/t rats. With so many mouths to fill in my herp room, it's much easier to deal just with different rat sizes when buying online. Plus, it seems that my colubrids in general seem to fill out once they've switched.

Tonight both my '03's and '04's took fuzzy or pink rats! It's like they made a group decision that rats are good (LOL). Up to this point three out of four held out for mice. Someone once told me that asian ratsnakes tend to prefer mice over rats, so I almost gave up. Has this been true in anyone's experience? I'm curious as to the food preferences of different species of asian ratsnakes? Thanks for sharing!

regards,
althea

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• Curious about food preferences in asian ratsnake species. . . - althea, Wed Jun 29 01:47:14 2005
• RE: Curious about food preferences in asian ratsnake species. . . - chris_harper2, Wed Jun 29 12:47:47 2005
• RE: Curious about food preferences in asian ratsnake species. . . - stevefounduk, Fri Jul 8 10:53:18 2005
• RE: Curious about food preferences in asian ratsnake species. . . - Matt Campbell, Tue Jul 12 21:00:30 2005
• Thanks for the input! n/p - althea, Wed Jul 13 01:12:33 2005