ASF trio

[stangs13]

Very informative thread!! I learned slot. I need to grow my rat colonie up so I can get me some bebes!

[frankykeno]

We have a second ASF colony established with one young male and two young females. So far no babies yet and the male is a bit of a handful. He's been named Psycho Rat.

[Ginevive]

We have a second ASF colony established with one young male and two young females. So far no babies yet and the male is a bit of a handful. He's been named Psycho Rat.

Argh, a psycho rat!? I can see this happening.. second colonies.. third ones. This is how I got into "big" rat breeding..

[monk90222]

I just cleaned my colony, I have about 20 in 1.3's or 1.4's all in 10gallon tanks...Its been about 2 weeks since I've cleaned them....I want to report..NO SMELL....none! and the pine was dry...if I went 2 weeks with regular rats they would be swimming in urine!


Also I am sick of chewed waterbottles...I wrapped the top of the bottles with aluminum tape...we'll see if it works...but I think it might??

[Reediculous]

I just cleaned my colony, I have about 20 in 1.3's or 1.4's all in 10gallon tanks...Its been about 2 weeks since I've cleaned them....I want to report..NO SMELL....none! and the pine was dry...if I went 2 weeks with regular rats they would be swimming in urine!


Also I am sick of chewed waterbottles...I wrapped the top of the bottles with aluminum tape...we'll see if it works...but I think it might??

i wonder why they feel the need to chew the water bottles. I'm sure you have wood in there for them. Maybe they hate the sippers! who knows!

[Ginevive]

hm.. I have a glass water bottle for them now. I actually switched to those for my rats too, because I was sick of coming home to chewed bottles! I give them all stuff to chew too.. and don't let the water run out..

[monk90222]

I'm sure you have wood in there for them.

I have wood, cardboard, Oat grass and paper towel tubes in there for them to chew on...they chew up all of that and still feel the need to chew the waterbottles....

[Ginevive]

Is oat grass the same as oat straw? I actually use oat straw as horse bedding (it is not a food product and had the seeds removed for other purposes.) Should I give my ASFS some to chew on?

[monk90222]

Also I am sick of chewed waterbottles...I wrapped the top of the bottles with aluminum tape...we'll see if it works...but I think it might??

UPDATE: Nope it didn't work....so i went with glass water bottles. $6.99 a pop in the bird section of PetSmart.

[frankykeno]

I like my glass Crush soda pop bottles way better. $1.25, I get the pop to drink and the spigots from the destroyed water bottles fit perfectly.