Too Big?

[Vengeance]

I've been having a hard time finding the right size feeder rats, they are either too small or too big. I bought ones thinking that me might be able to take them but now I'm not so sure. He is just under 600 grams, about 590 grams. The rat weighs 175 grams, he has been taking 100 - 125 gram rats. Do you think he could take it?

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3606Rat-med.JPG

[SD-SNAKE]

Yep he will take it. I go with feeding the snakes food thats as thick as them or slightly larger. If your worried feed him 2 smalls. take care Nick

[emroul]

He could get that down easily.

[Vengeance]

I got a hard enough time getting him to take one most days :P Having him take 2 would be a miracle.

[BoidKeeper]

That is the ideal size!
Good luck,
Trevor

[Vengeance]

Guess it was about time he moved up in size, thanks for the advice.

[nita]

Ok, question here too, I was feeding my guys who weighed at the time about 1000g a 165g rat and that left a huge lump that lasted a good 3 days!!!! I couldnt' imagine feeding that size to a 600 g snake!! The same snake now is 1345g and will nail back 2 100g rats a week but I am wondering if he would take large rats? I can get some 300g + rats from Neil T locally here but figure those are too big for my snakes, my 4 largest are 1345g, 1385g, 1530g and 1170g. The one at 1170 will probably be 1300 or so by next week as she ate 200g worth of rats yesterday. Do you think they would manage a 300g rat??? I weigh them all before feeding, all four of these ones eat like clockwork too, unless shedding of course.

[MouseKilla]

I gave up on the weight ratio business myself, it's a needless complication. All you need to do is eye up the animal and the prey. If you look at the picture above you will notice that the girth of the prey is just slightly more than that of the snake, that is textbook (caresheet) ideal prey size.

[nita]

I realize that the width is important I offered Isis a rat that was same size around she was but she still wouldn't eat it. It was very long though too. It looks like the same difference as the picture above, I guess you have to know your snake. If it was my Isis and I was offering her a rat that size she wouldn't take it.

[Kane65]

The general rule is no larger than 1.5 times the girth of the snake.