Balls eating rabbits and cleaning question

[hhw]

Rabbits also have almost double the calcium but about a 5% lower calcium to phosphorus ratio.

Now, I have no idea if a higher Ca:P ratio is always better or whether just having that much more raw Ca works out to be better in the long run in ball pythons, but perhaps someone else can answer that. I'm just putting the data out there.

[Derrick]

Originally posted by mykee
kcal; the energy producing potential in food, or the amount of food completely used by the body for energy is different, with the rat's kcal 15% higher than that of a neonatal bunny.

kcal is just 1000s of calories as fat has more than twice the calories per gram than protien. So the kcal will be higher for rats because thier fatter

[Jeff_Favelle]

How do we know that the natural design of Ball Python is better suited for a diet of either? To claim that one is better than the other is a laugh at best. Not all animals are mammals and not all animals thrive on a diet that is necessarily higher nutritionally than others.

Food for tho......yeah.

[mykee]

Derrick; wrong on both counts. One gram protein and one gram of carbohydrate each contain 6 calories. One gram of fat contains 9 calories. Hardly " more than double". Also, the body doesn't use FAT as energy until ALL the reserves of protein (first) and carbohydrates, which are broken down into simple sugars in the body (second) are tapped. The body will only use fat as energy only when the body isn't receiving the other two. It would be safe to say that a pet snake would RARELY use fat as energy, unless they're being starved.