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I started a breed project, and stumbled across a Rex, which I never even heard of.

I bought her as a mama rat, but it seems like she is better suited to being the new family pet. She was in the same tank as the white rats.

Do balls care about the kind of rat they eat?

I am not familar with rex rats At one time I had a rex bunny, and its fur was so soft, Is that how the rat is?

This rat is sooooo soft with very short wavy hair & curly Q whiskers to match. She has a great personality & loves to sit & be petted.

http://www.afrma.org/rexrat.htm

Gracie

rex can be made from breeding hairless with normals I think.....half haired too ......anyways..,,,there are names for them too....

....rex rabbits have no guard hairs I think...it's all the same short length and all you see and feel is the soft underfur..

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rex, normal, wild , hairless, dumbo, blue steel, powder blue, any color shape,and size.......

They all taste the same..........
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I figured they would taste the same. Personally, I like Coke the best, but Diet Pepsi way beats diet coke any day!

But, lol

The (ahem) gentleman at the store who took her out for me said that "some snakes won't eat dark rats b/c"

(trying not to laugh here)

"they get spooked by the rat & think it's their shadow or something."

what's he been smoking?

some snakes prefer dark and some prefer white

white rodents make too many reflections in a glass cage....snakes will hit the glass too many times.......

some snakes know mice are to be brown or black
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My snake had no issues eating my rex rat's brother. he was not as nice as Scurvy so he became snake chow.

~jenny
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1.4 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, Dot, and Coco)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
0.0.5 tropical fish (tetras and a neon blue gourami)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

When my brother worked at a petstore he said they fed gerbils to the more picky snakes which usually were balls.I personally find it harder to feed my snake colored mice vs.white mice.I know it doesn't matter,but they seem more like a "pet"than the white lab mice.

We have a ton of breeder rats to supply our snakes, and some of the babies are adorable, we have Lucys and dumbos and one red eye and one black eye tans, and the list could go on forever. I keep all the cute ones back as future breeders, well to some extent, its actually seldom we produce all white with red eyes any more..lol...
Kim

Haha, my balls aren't picky about dark, light, or multicolored rats. I would certainly think they'd take the rex and make it into a nice lump in their belly...
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Inventory
1.2 Bairds Rat Snake
5.11 Ball Pythons
1.3 Boa Constrictors
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
0.2 Cal Kings
1.2 Carpet Pythons
26.38.4 Corn Snakes
1.2 Dumerils Boa
1.0 Eastern Fox Snake
1.1 Green Tree Pythons
1.0 Grey Banded Kingsnake
1.1 Hog Island Boa
1.3 Jallisco Milksnake
1.3 Kenyan Sand Boas
1.1 Mandarin Rat Snake
1.3 Mexican Black Kingsnake
0.0.1 Northern Water Snake
1.1 Red Milksnake
1.1 Ruthvens Kingsnake
2.5 San Luis Potosi Kingsnake
1.1 Spotted Pythons
1.2 Taiwan Beauty
5.5 Western Hognose

The rex mutation is the same as the pastel mutation as far as inheritance. A rex bred to a normal theoretically produces 50% rex, and 50% normal. A rex bred to a rex produces 25% normal, 50% rex, and 25% double rex. Double rex are called patchwork rats sometimes. They grow hair but lose it at regular intervals as it is very brittle and is constantly breaking off. True hairless rats are not double rex, and are unable to grow hair at any point in their lives. As long as your snake will eat rats, it will eat rex rats, and even double rex rats. Here are pics of a dumbo rex and a double rex!

Baldy:

Same Rat Growing hair:

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Thanks,
Amy
www.myboids.4t.com
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1.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball pythons
0.0.1 Sinaloan Milk Snake
0.0.1 Plains Garter
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
2.0 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
1.0 Mid-Baja Rosy Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
1.2 BCI
That's Just The Snakes!

This is a dangerous hobby!

I got rats to breed & end up having more pets. So, we have 3 pet mice out of about 30 now, & 1 pet rat amongst 3 breeder females & 1 male.

Tx for the genetics scoop. Are your pix of pet rats, or feeders?

I appreciate the info! I didn't know anything about rex rats and am always looking to learn something new!
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Inventory
1.2 Bairds Rat Snake
5.11 Ball Pythons
1.3 Boa Constrictors
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
0.2 Cal Kings
1.2 Carpet Pythons
26.38.4 Corn Snakes
1.2 Dumerils Boa
1.0 Eastern Fox Snake
1.1 Green Tree Pythons
1.0 Grey Banded Kingsnake
1.1 Hog Island Boa
1.3 Jallisco Milksnake
1.3 Kenyan Sand Boas
1.1 Mandarin Rat Snake
1.3 Mexican Black Kingsnake
0.0.1 Northern Water Snake
1.1 Red Milksnake
1.1 Ruthvens Kingsnake
2.5 San Luis Potosi Kingsnake
1.1 Spotted Pythons
1.2 Taiwan Beauty
5.5 Western Hognose