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I've had this wild-caught black rat for 4 days. Twice there has been a spot on the paper towels that I use for substrate. It's a wet spot a little over an inch in diameter with yellow, grainy stuff in the middle. The yellow stuff looks sort of like cornmeal and is smaller in diameter than a dime. Anybody know what this is? This is my first snake, so I'm new to any and all snake excrement. Thanks.

>>I've had this wild-caught black rat for 4 days. Twice there has been a spot on the paper towels that I use for substrate. It's a wet spot a little over an inch in diameter with yellow, grainy stuff in the middle. The yellow stuff looks sort of like cornmeal and is smaller in diameter than a dime. Anybody know what this is? This is my first snake, so I'm new to any and all snake excrement. Thanks.

That is Musk.
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My collection
1.0.0 Normal Taiwan Beauty Snake
1.1.0 Normal Black Rat Snake
1.0.0 White-sided Black Rat Snake
1.0.0 Anery Corn Snake
1.0.0 Amel Corn Snake
1.0.0 Normal Common Garter Snake
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1.0.0 Black Racer
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0.0 Spilotes
1.0.0 Blue Beauty Snake

Thanks for the reply.
Is it normal for it to just musk randomly?

Normal and sounds like urates to me, they do that, I see it as you describe more so with my younger rat and pine snakes then with my adults, the grainly yellow crap thing.

>>I've had this wild-caught black rat for 4 days. Twice there has been a spot on the paper towels that I use for substrate. It's a wet spot a little over an inch in diameter with yellow, grainy stuff in the middle. The yellow stuff looks sort of like cornmeal and is smaller in diameter than a dime. Anybody know what this is? This is my first snake, so I'm new to any and all snake excrement. Thanks.
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Thanks,

I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.

urates....they come in yellows too....

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