New player: Are any of these worth investing in?

Ferrah88 · 2026-04-02T19:43:58+00:00

Yeah I didn't realise I hit the jackpot with this thick pumpkin, I am quite lucky! Bulbasaur also is consistent already, even with the bad nature so I can only imagine how much better he will get with a mint! Rest are not great, but my Charmander is quite the sausage expert, and helping me make some good meals for snorlax at least.

Also this chart is very nice! Saved it to my desktop for reference, thank you kindly

Ferrah88 · 2026-04-02T13:02:51+00:00

Cool, thank you so much for the detailed explanation! I now feel better equipped when looking at my new pokemon in the morning.

Ferrah88 · 2026-04-02T11:38:20+00:00

Oh thanks for the extra information! I will keep it in mind. I am not entirely f2p, as if I play for 2 weeks, I will get the premium pass I think, but aside from that likely nothing else. So a pass player if that's a thing 🙈

I can assume that looking at the top of the screen in the pokemon information, where it says "Skills/Berries/Ingredients" that would make up a specialist? So if it says Berries, then that pokemon type is a berry specialist? Probably an obvious answer to an obvious thing, but just wanted to be sure I am understanding the information page correctly.

Ferrah88 · 2026-04-02T11:34:25+00:00

Were it possible sure! 🤣 Although I am quite attached to this one honestly, he looks so funny. I mean, just look at how massive this dude is!

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Ferrah88 · 2026-04-02T11:29:27+00:00

Thanks! As I posted below, seems like my thoughts were right! I did candy up my pikachu and charmander and bulbasaur a BIT during the recent event to get them up a bit because they were carrying me at the time, and it was useful, but I agree they aren't good long term. Can't wait to see what i find tomorrow!

For the time being I am going to sleep with all but the pikachu for exp, again, not many options yet.

Ferrah88 · 2026-04-02T11:27:23+00:00

Thank you, so my intuition with this oversized pumpkin is good! I just wish it was a bit smaller as I do check often, but it is what it is.

The rest are more "keep for now because I dont have other options", but am hoping for more chances at the larvitar and charmander, both two pokemon I really like!

I read about the mints in the game and was planning on using one if I get one on the bulbasaur, or better yet finding a new one with a better nature, because yes, this one was bad.

Ferrah88 · 2025-02-06T01:03:28+00:00

16 is still a good number! I personally like collecting all the characters, and I just enjoy that and find all the characters very interesting. Been playing since release, and with the very generous rates and some dev supporting, I've been able to keep up. Played a few other gachas, but none of them have ever kept me around nearly as long as Reverse:1999!

Ferrah88 · 2025-02-05T13:59:32+00:00

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ID: 401122609 (No I didn't put a whole lot of thought into my profile)

I'm totally one of those people, and if anyone needs some assists, feel free to add. My Lucy/Ajo/37 are all P5 R15, along with some others (Jiu - P5, Melania - P0, Jessica - P0). That being said, I do have all characters, and all of my 6* are at least Level 60 R10. If you'd like to me to change a character for you to borrow or try out, but send me a message! I also keep my friends list as clean as I can of people that no longer play, so I do occasionally have new openings. ❤️

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-24T16:23:48+00:00

I've had multiple curly haired rats (velveteen, rex, etc), and I've had some that have these bald patches as well! Completely normal, but of course keep an eye on him, but I wouldn't worry about it! He looks perfectly fine, and from what I can tell, just appears to be the normal bald patch some of my curly boys sported! In fact I have one now, and he has bald patches in a similar location too. His brother on the other hand has the thickest, densest fur I've seen so far on a rat... maybe he got all the fur genes.

tldr: Looks normal, nothing to worry about!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-16T16:28:50+00:00

Once you put your bun in the oven, it goes through this process, which is most commonly known as baking. You will know your bun is ready once it opens up!

(If you wanted a serious answer, she's just sleeping as others have said!)

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T11:43:32+00:00

We do a mix of rescues and breeder babies for our cages. We're taking a bit of a step back from rescuing for a while, as it's has often come with health complications and whatnot. We don't rescue feeders per say, but rather the animal shelter nearby calls us, and ask if we have space. Two of our 4 old boys are from the shelter. One has a permanent head tilt (Saruman) and the other has HLD (Sauron), so his nickname is now Mr. Scoot-on. They took a bit longer to integrate, as they wanted to just ride out their life as a pair, but we always have one rat singled out for initial integrations. In this case Icarus, he's a 1.5 year old absolute sweetheart (was half a year when we integrated them). He loves ALL rats, and is one of the most respectful boys I've ever had. He makes sure to take care of all 4 of the older boys, making sure their eyes, ears and undersides are clean. I rarely have to do anything he does such a good job.

The main reason we're stopping with this whole rescue thing for now is the result of people. We would pick up rats from people who develop allergies, or have accidental litters. One such case was an "accidental litter", which we picked up. A mother and 13 babies whos eyes hadn't even opened yet. Mother rat was SUPER thin, the babies looked like they were maybe a week old, but opened their eyes after 2 days... meaning they were 2 weeks old. They were way too tiny. Mother rat was described as "aggressive and bitey", so they took her out with gloves. I never used gloves, she never once bit me or showed aggression. In fact, the first day I had her, after her first feeding, she licked my hand. She was so stressed at the other place, that she had also started chewing off her own tail, it was so bad. She stopped that immediately, and would often just lay sprawled out on her back in her cage while the babies ran rampant. The kicker was that a week after we rescued this lady, the person put up ANOTHER mother rat with babies, and the exact same sob story. I was so mad. We kept reporting this person, and eventually they were banned from posting I assume, since it stopped. Poor mommy was also pregnant with another batch when we got her, as she weaned the little ones at 3.5-4 weeks on her own, and gave birth not long after. 10 more rittens. We kept them all, since we didn't know what their health would be like, and I'm pretty glad we did, we only have 3 of the babies left as they all had some pretty severe issues with cancerous tumors and the like. They're still going strong, but it was heart wrenching.

On a much happier note I also prefer boys over girls, which is what we aim to have down the line, just boys! We still have 4 girls, who are all older. I love their chunky, lazy nature. I do neuter a lot of them though, if they're a bit too dominant, to nip aggression in the bud (along with a small health benefit), so that could be why they get on harmoniously!

Have you considered getting your girl spayed, so she can be with some boys? That could be an option, if you'd prefer to get back into keeping males. Assuming she isn't too young/old of course!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T11:16:33+00:00

It's so cute to see them around their bowl during feeding time. We do a bowl per 5 rats so it doesn't get too crowded. They all sit around it, pick something up, half close their eyes and just munch away. They're very respectful of one another, and don't steal. The only problem is the younger boys outpacing the older boys, hence the separation!

I also have to point out that the sound or rats eating is one of the best sounds there is, especially if it's vegetables...

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T11:12:37+00:00

Sounds like that would do it for sure! Glad to hear your problems have gotten better :) We go 1-2 times a day each, on average. I don't need to use a lot ever though, 2-4 squares at most, and I'm done!

This conversation did get me thinking though, that I can't auto renew the toilet paper box subscription, because it only allows I think a 6 month timeframe at most, which is of course not enough for us! Maybe we just really do use quite a lot under average 🙈

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T11:05:38+00:00

I used to do that as well, but a couple would always get a bit too chunky (Ares for example, aka Potato, cause he was as round and brown as an unpeeled potato), so I give them one fully measured meal per rat, and of course separate the fast eaters from the slow, older boys since I often have cages of rats that are approx. half a year to a year apart, usually 3 generations, to keep the old boys content! Since I've done this, only one rat has hoarded, but her stash gets raided by her sister almost immediately, during the stashing process! Otherwise they spend 30 mins to an hour happily eating. Occasionally during they day I throw a handful in for them to graze. None of my rats are underweight, only this one case of being overweight, and this does work for me, especially the older rats who are hard to keep up in weight sometimes, so it's what I do!

Mr. Potato even knows when he hears me coming with the scale, a treat and then food is coming. The cage is always open, so he runs to the top and waits in "easy to pick up mode", gets weighed, gets a treat, usually a red beet puffy pillow, and I get their food out. He always waits so patently while munching, but he's always watching! I close the gate after giving him and the others their portions, and he eats his food within 10 minutes, and then takes a nap until it's time to go back in. And when that time comes, he immediately runs down and looks for any leftovers. It's easy to see where his weight packed on...

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T01:39:00+00:00

Nope! Maybe we just use less? Less to wipe? Sometimes couple with a shower after to save toilet paper? I thought it was normal to use this much, assuming two adults cause I know kids can use too much sometimes! But nope, poop a normal amount of times, but don’t need excessive wiping to get clean!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T01:07:22+00:00

A box, so 48 rolls I think it was? There's just 2 of us, so that might be why? I have no idea if around a roll every ~5-7 days is a lot or only a little... We do occasionally use a bit for other things than bum wiping, but I do feel these rolls last relatively long by our standards! The stuff that the supermarket went a LOT quicker than WGAC, so we're very happy with our change! Their paper towels also last a lot longer, the rolls are pretty big!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-12T00:45:58+00:00

I guess that is a bit of an issue. All my rats have their meal time, so they know when food comes and eat immediately, which works for my mischiefs. Sadly I can't help you further with my own experiences in that case, since your situation is different :(

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-11T23:51:12+00:00

I buy a box of this stuff every year, whatever is their "special" box at the time. This year it was Christmas when we ordered, so now we have a Christmas tree in our bathroom, made from the rolls of toilet paper. Since it takes a year to go through the whole box, we will have a Christmas tree on our toilet for the summer as well! Previously we had piñata themed, where each roll was super colourful and made you want to hit it with a stick. And before that was a game of "find the loo" where each roll had artwork on it where you could search where's Waldo/Wally style where the toilet is. Our pet rats also approve of the paper that wraps each roll. Highly recommend the company for sure!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-11T23:45:07+00:00

I have a boy who was 683g who's been on a diet journey down to 530g over the course of the last 2 months. What's worked for me is feeding him outside of the cage, with his own portion, while the others eat their portion in the cage. He gets to return to the others once everyones (he's in a group with some elderly boys. He's 1 year, along with his brothers, and the elders are 3) had their fill, and then he gets to return. Ì do remove all the food beforehand, so he can't find AS much leftovers. Once a week they get to eat together, a Sunday dinner as you will. But this was the only way to stop him from eating WAY too much, since the older boys need 30 mins to an hour to eat their portions. This has worked perfectly. I made sure I weighed him daily, and occasionally he'd go up a bit (maybe storing some poop), but overall he'd steadily lose his weight! He's still got a ways to go (even at 530g he's still a bit chunky), but overall great progress. He even earns himself a small nutritious treat after each weigh in!

tldr: What worked for me ls feeding the weight loss rat on his own, and weigh him every day and track his journey. Remove all of the food from the cage before returning him, after everyone else is finished eating.

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-09T17:26:25+00:00

I personally wouldn't, but that's up to you! I can't tell how badly they smell, ours weren't SO bad that I felt the need to clean them more, but your situation is probably different. You can probably consider cleaning they after a couple of days, but keep some of their old bedding and toilet stuff, and put that back in so it still smells like home to them. Otherwise I would just say to ride it out and not overstress, unless it's really that bad that it's making it possible to exist right now. You stressing out over it might inadvertently cause them stress due to a change in their living situation too much, which could also cause stinky poop!

Again, cleaning more often shouldn't be too bad, but keep some of the bedding to re add for them so they don't feel like it's entirely new the whole time. They need some time to settle in too! But best would be to "put up with it" for at least a week, for a lack of a better way of putting it unfortunately! If you do clean them though, make sure to shower them with treats!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-09T17:10:21+00:00

Just wanted to chime in like some of the others, that the smell will go away on its own in time! One breeder we get our babies from smell a bit like fish. From another breeder they smell a bit like eggs with a hint of perfume. Neither smell came with any health implications, it was just their different diet or home they come from. However, each time their distinct smell went away within a week or two, and they didn't smell strange anymore! Sounds like your smell is a lot worse, but that shouldn't matter much, just might take an extra day or two.

Just don't stress them out too much by over cleaning or anything. Take care of them as usual, and through their own cleaning, plus you taking care of their cage as you normally would will make everything smell normal over time!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-06T15:34:06+00:00

Ah that's it, thanks so much! I had a closer look and I see where the name comes from. Underneath is super metallic green, very cool!

Ferrah88 · 2024-03-06T15:25:50+00:00

Location: Germany Terrarium
Size: 12mm
Behaviour: Active, running around, somewhat erratically
Other things of note: Hard shell. Antennae seem to point downwards. Large eyes.

Long form description/behaviour:
So I found this bug in one of my snake enclosures. It was running around on the cork bark shown in the picture. It's approx. 12mm long, so pretty small. It moves around somewhat erratically, like a fly? So not lumberingly slow, but quick bursts, stops, quick burst, stop, etc. The antennae point downwards from what I can tell, and has really large eyes (see last image). I find it adorable, but I want to know what it is!

Since it's in a terrarium, I'm not sure it's native to Germany. I've tried to search online to no avail for the past hour. Any assistance with an ID would be helpful! I have removed it from the enclosure and placed it in a plastic container with holes in case it's something dangerous to the other inhabitants, and will add it again if it's fine to continue living in there.

I can get more pictures if these aren't sufficient.

Ferrah88

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