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10-Sep-07, 06:04 PM
|  | Subscriber | | | | Upsizing to bigger feeds?
This might be more a matter of personal opinion, but when do you guys decide to upgrade to a bigger feed for your pythons?
Reason I'm asking is my darwin is now about 8-9 months old around 90cm long (very rough guess, I'm at work right now) and is eating a fuzzy rat once a week. I was thinking about going up to weaner rats but they just looked a little too big. Might let him finish this pack of fuzzy's then go up to weaners. |
10-Sep-07, 07:09 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: melbourne Age/Gender: 18  | | | | i try to keep food items the size of thickest part of snake. |
10-Sep-07, 07:23 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Alice Springs Gender: | | | I personally try to pick food that is slightly larger than the thickest part of the body. A slight bulge seems to be just right 
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10-Sep-07, 08:56 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Western Sydney. Age/Gender: 18 | | | | i feed my 9month old Mac hoppers and she downs them fine. is there such thing as feeding your snake food that is to big?
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10-Sep-07, 09:01 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Nowra Age/Gender: 24 | | | | It is more of a matter of wether what you are currently feeding your snake leaves a bulge or not. It it is no longer leaving a bulge. Either give it double of the same amount, or possibly try it on something bigger than what you had been feeding it
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10-Sep-07, 09:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sydney West | | | bigger is better
oh wait, for once this doesnt work, hey, if it is too big they wont eat it, he aint gonna die from something too big...
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10-Sep-07, 09:07 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Nowra Age/Gender: 24 | | | | One thing to keep in mind when feeding your snake something bigger than you had been is that the temperature is warm enough to allow the snake to properly digest the meal
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11-Sep-07, 09:02 AM
| | Subscriber | | | | | Thanks guys, I was thinking along those lines. The fuzzy rats leave only a slight bulge now, so might go up to weaner rats in a few weeks when he's finished this pack. |
11-Sep-07, 01:26 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RevDaniel  It is more of a matter of wether what you are currently feeding your snake leaves a bulge or not. It it is no longer leaving a bulge. Either give it double of the same amount, or possibly try it on something bigger than what you had been feeding it | yep, that's what I do. | |
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