"Hi Elidogs, why would you offer (for example) 6 mice as opposed to one large rat (if the 6 were the same total weight as the one large), the digestion will take just as long for both.

I would feed the adults of larger species proportionately larger prey (not to suggest they wouldn`t be interested in smaller)."



I don't know if 1 large rat digests as quick as say 5 mice...I would think the mice digest quicker since they are seperate smaller pieces of flesh but who knows...I generally feed prey items about half the size of the monitors head. So for my savs thats about 1 adult mouse per adult monitor. Maybe some of the large species like crocs niles and water can easily just take rats.



I have a adult ball python I just feed mice to I stopped bothering with rats he prefers the mice...getting alittle off topic but..... I just try to feed what they like and not over feed. Its easier to overfeed with larger prey items. And its a beeotch to get monitors to lose weight.

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