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Originally Posted by poomwah
I told the breeder I was really concerned about the snakes size.
He assured me that it is indeed a 2012. And said:
"You definitely received the right snake. Yellow rat do run a bit small than black rats both in length and girth, but aside from that our snakes our not powerfed. They do well for us on a once a week to every ten day schedule. We seem to grow them up at similar rates that I observe in wild rat snakes in my field work down here"
a BIT ???? lol
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I don't think that is true. Black rats can grow larger, but on average I think they are about the same size. At least I've run into plenty of 5-6 foot long yellow rats in the wild. Feeding a juvenile snake any less frequently than every 7 days does seem a bit skimpy. I doubt it will hurt the snake, but you could easily feed more without it being "power feeding".
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