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- From: tmohler+@cs.cmu.edu (Tim Mohler)
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- Subject: Re: The Makeup of A Snake's Housing...
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:24:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.023453.18349@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
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- >Any advice on finding a rodent breeder? I can't find anything in the local YP.
-
- Caveat: I know some snakes will not eat gerbils - you should test it on
- a gerbil before raising them.
-
- I don't know about rodent breeders, but since that snake is 7 ft, it will
- eat largish rodents - gerbils at least, surely smaller rats, and
- probably a decent-sized rat.
-
- I have raised mice and gerbils. I ditched the mice - they STANK. The
- gerbils, though, do not stink. I don't know why that is. I have been
- told that rats do not stink as badly as mice, but I have no personal
- experience.
-
- By stink, I mean you could smell the mice throughout most of the house -
- and I only had four adults.
-
- The gerbils only smell if you put your face down into the cage.
-
- Also, I have had interesting results breeding gerbils - I've gotten
- albino, black with white spots, and normal-colored gerbils.
-
- They breed about once every 5 weeks, so the turn-over time is pretty
- quick.
-
- They get decently large, too. if your burmese is anything like my
- apartment-mate's burmese, it will eat 5 mice at a sitting, which can
- get expensive buying - gerbils will fill it up faster.
-
- My random thoughts,
- Tim
-