When I first started keeping snakes, I remembered reading someone's suggestion that for small snakes that feed exclusively on pinkies and fuzzies, you should supplement with calcium.
What has been your experiences? Do you guys think that one should supplement with calcium?
The reason I am asking is that: I am considering switching exclusively to rats. However, two of my smaller species (copperhead and pigmy rattle snake) can only feed on rat pinkies.
Do you think I will run into calcium insufficiency or mal-nutrition if I fed only rat pinkies?
(I can see the logic of it: pinkies probably only have cartilages instead of bones.)
thx.
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Longtang. I like snakes and rats.
