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Old 21-Mar-07, 10:23 AM
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chris,- rats are fine to feed them, thats all my olives get and i have never had a problem.
IMO where the problem lies is in the actual breeding of the rats, most people that breed their own rats and most breeders that supply rats to the hobby, breed them in those horrible little plastic boxes on a rack system. IMO this is asking for trouble long term, as they get no exersize and end up fat and unhealthy. Then they get sold/feed to your snakes and slowly kill your animals from an excsessive fat build up. I have seen this happen many times over the years especially in animals like bhps.
All my rats are bred in bath tubs and get as much exersize as they want and none of them ever get fat and unhealthy like those that are bred in small tubs.
I only feed what i breed and DONOT ever get rats off any one thats breeds rats in those small tubs.
 

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