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My yearling black rat and licorice stick are both geting larger... over 2 feet each I think... and i'm trying to feed them the rest of my fuzzies I got. They're taking 2 bigger or 3 smaller fuzzies every saturday right now. I haven't ever seen sizes of the mice, but i'm about to order some more and i'm wondering should I skip a hopper and go up to a small mouse, or get a bag of 50 hoppers and give each 25 then go to teh small mice?

Also, what would be a comparable sized rat? I've heard these are more nutritious? Any truth to that?

I'd say they're about 26-28 inches.

thanks
-chris
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Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Black Rat (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)
1.0 Green Tree Python (Claudius)... coming soon

........would be your other option. I have heard both that they are more nutritious and that there is not as much calcium due to pinks having underdeveloped bones. My larger ratsnakes (including one of my corns) went right to rat pinks and now are on rat fuzzies. A couple of them were eating small rats during the summer but scaled back in prey-size during the "off" season.
Since I get my rodents at the Ohio Reptile Show, I get the luxury of browsing the sizes and asking, "Do you have a size smaller/larger?" Duffy