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- From: tracer@carson.u.washington.edu (David P. Tracer)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.herp
- Subject: Re: The Makeup of A Snake's Housing...
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 02:02:40 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- References: <119310028@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1993Jan1.023453.18349@siemens.com> <C0725H.MoE.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <C0725H.MoE.1@cs.cmu.edu> tmohler+@cs.cmu.edu (Tim Mohler) writes:
- >
- >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
-
-
- A 7 ft. Burmese will eat more like 20 gerbils in one feeding. A snake
- that size should probably be eating 2-3 rats per feeding (depending of
- course on how much time elapses between feedings). For reference, my
- female 8 ft. Burmese eats 4 to 6 lbs. of bunny every 10 days and she's
- by no means a fat snake.
-
- -David
-
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