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Anonymous
Well, here's a tip for ya. If you bought your first rat by itself, keep one of the baby girls regardless of what you do with the others. Rats do a lot better with at least one friend.
Check out ratforum.com for advice, they're pretty knowledgeable there for the most part, and may have stickies with the info you need or links to it.
One of my boys looks just like the bigger one in the pic, heh.
Big advice is separate males and females like already posted. Double-check em! Males can suck in their nuts when they're nervous until they're 6-7 weeks old, making it hard to sex em, and female rats can get pregnant at 5 weeks. That's why it's so common to get pregnant female rats at pet stores - whoops male mixed in, hope it isn't too late.
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