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Hi, Justa asking what is the best way to heat P/K ratpup for a baby royal. Also being new at this could someone explain a few abbreviations for me? Namely " F/T " and " 0.1 etc ".

thanks

P/K or pre-killed usually don't have to be heated up as they should be freshly killed. However, F/T or frozen/thawed should be thoroughly thawed and then heated to between 95F and 99F. Thaw the prey item by either leaving it out at room temps or put in warm water. There are various ways to heat them back up. You can place them under a low wattage heat lamp, on a heating pad or blanket, or even a hair dryer. My balls are picky and only eat thier rats dry so I put a little effort into it and dry them off or you can place the prey item in a ziplock and place them in warm water.

As far as the numbers that we use with our animals...it works like this.

1.2.3

1 male
2 female
3 unsexed

For example my Het Albino pair with be represented as such:

1.1 since I have a male and a female.

Hope that helps,

Dathan

Thanks for the advice, I've had some trouble getting her to feed, she's 3 months old and has not eaten in the last 3 weeks. Until tonight, when she polished of a thawed, heated puprat at a rate of knots. I am now not the concerned snake keeper that I was, but I am almost jumping up and down now that she has fed for me.

I've posted for advice several times and have not been let down once by the people on this forum, If only the rest of the world worked that way...

Thanks to all who've helped

Colin

After being all happy yesterday because she had fed, I found her this morning with her head upside down in her water bowl.

How to go from up to down in 1 day

Would still like to reiterate the thanks to all who've helped me with her.

Colin