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16-Mar-08, 08:38 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | |  Feeding your snakes
How much do you guys feed your snakes.. is it ok to feed once every month or so if you have a large rat.. at the moment im on once every 2 weeks with all my snakes..
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16-Mar-08, 09:43 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: ipswich Age/Gender: 19 | | | | i feed mine once a week and fortnight depending on the snake,my big girl, 9.5ft coastal gets either a big rat or small rabbit once a fortnight.the others get fed once a week. i know some people that only feed theirs once a month, but they get 2 or 3 jumbo rats. all depends on preference, and wether or not they are a bit under weight or if your bulking them up for the breeding season. |
16-Mar-08, 09:46 PM
|  | Q Dog Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Redlands, SE Qld Gender: | | | | I personally give the big rats a miss and prefer to fed adult mice. Those big rats are full of fat I have found and are nothing like the lean meat a snake would get in the wild.
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16-Mar-08, 09:50 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney | | | I feed my juvie diamond and adult children once a week on large mice and the adult bredli and adult diamond cross coastal fortnightly with a large or jumbo rat each.
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18-Mar-08, 07:03 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | nice.. its unlucky but my diamond only eats small meals so i have to regularly feed her :-(.. thanks for the info anyway!
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18-Mar-08, 07:39 PM
| | Q Dog Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Redlands, SE Qld Gender: | | | | It might be just me, bit I feel it is better to feed smaller meals than really big ones
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18-Mar-08, 07:42 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-04 Gender:  | | | | Depending on the age of the animal and the size of it will depend on the food size. I always use rats, and my smaller stuff get fed every 5 days, adults every 7-10 depending on food size. |
18-Mar-08, 08:08 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | my female diamond is roughly 1.5m and she gets 1 medium rat (roughly 6-8cmlong and 3cm thick) every 2 weeks.. would this be enough to fatten her up for breeding (or at least have her ready for breeding) next year?
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18-Mar-08, 08:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | If you wanted her a bit fatter and to try and get her to breed, maybe try every 10 days instead or 14. |
18-Mar-08, 08:42 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | thanks for the info Dan!
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18-Mar-08, 08:43 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | oh feel free to check her out on my Photos (just under the amount of posts i have made on the right side of your screen for those that don't know) and let me know how much bigger she should be.. oh and she is the yellow one not the blacker one..
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18-Mar-08, 08:47 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-07 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 21 | | | I feed my little Spotted Python 2wice a week. I give him the biggest rats he can get down, then just wait till he poo's again, then i feed him again. I have only just started doing this though because i think he has a small head and hes not growing enough. I want him to be a mean massive fighting machine. I think the rats i give him are called Fuzzy. He's head is only like the size of a pen so its pretty amazing watching him swallow it down. |
18-Mar-08, 08:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | haha lol maca!! massive machine like Jerry Collins!!
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18-Mar-08, 09:57 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: northern vic Age/Gender: 41 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca886  I feed my little Spotted Python 2wice a week. I give him the biggest rats he can get down, then just wait till he poo's again, then i feed him again. I have only just started doing this though because i think he has a small head and hes not growing enough. I want him to be a mean massive fighting machine. I think the rats i give him are called Fuzzy. He's head is only like the size of a pen so its pretty amazing watching him swallow it down. | Mate you are nuts, you are going to damage the little spotty if you continue to feed this way!
If its head is only the size of a pen you should only be on small pinky rats fed at 1 every
6-7 days which will be enough for it to grow properly |
18-Mar-08, 10:01 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Behind You :o Age/Gender: 21 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by beeman Mate you are nuts, you are going to damage the little spotty if you continue to feed this way!
If its head is only the size of a pen you should only be on small pinky rats fed at 1 every
6-7 days which will be enough for it to grow properly | Hook line and sinker? =P | | |
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