Rats are more nutritious than mice with a better meat to bone ratio, but this guy had never seen a rat in his whole life. Some snakes apparently won't take rats at all and most herpetoculturists don't like mousers as they call them. Bruce apparently has no qualms about taking rats. His feeding response is wild! He hammered this rat pup like he hadn't seen food in months. I know he was fed the day before yesterday so what's his excuse? heh He's going to like it here. I'm not sure he's had all he wanted to eat, and we're all about the food... :P
Here's the roach pizza I made after cleaning up the roach colony. They are feeders for the invertebrates. I put two and two together and figured the colony had out grown it's enclosure so I froze these guys in hopes of feeding them more easily.
I have managed to learn a few things about handling the roaches. They are so darned fast that it's tough to stay 100% contained with none of the escaping, but so far so good. Changing the substrate and moving them around is my biggest challenge, but today I chilled them! It was only 12C here today so I set the container on the Yota and went for lunch. When I came back they were delightfully slow! If the freezing thing works I'm off to the races.
Even though they are a more soft bodied and tropical roach, they are after all a roach and I'm not too interested in cohabiting. They are the most relentless, persistent, and tenacious animal I've ever dealt with. My invert love them though and are growing so well!
