Help, Do I need to increase food size

[CHEWY]

I did a full clean and feed of my animals today.
I was looking at one of my pythons eating and was wondering if it could take anything bigger.
What do you guys think? Should I start buying something a bit larger?

She can still constrict the prey fine.

OK, ran out of rabbits so she ate 53 mice, jokes, blue hatchy refused a feed and thought I'd see if mum would take it.
Took her a while to make up her mind. I think she almost turned it down.

 

[abnrmal91]

Just a little snack

 

[Leasdraco]

Haha i bet she was thinking ' youve got to be joking mate' when she saw that.

 

[Boidae]

I'm suprised she actually got that down.
I find that snakes have real trouble ingesting a meal much smaller than normal.
I gave my Olive, who is about 8.5 feet, a weaner rat that my Coastal didn't eat.
She didn't end up eating it, she just sat there chewing it for half an hour haha.

 

[Rattler]

its a bit big for that snake..back off to embryo pigmy mice

 

[vampstorso]

She's a pretty lady!

 

[Khagan]

No wonder she went you that time teasing her like that lol.

 

[CaptainRatbag]

She could eat them by the dozen lol

 

[abnrmal91]

No wonder she went you that time teasing her like that lol.

Maybe she likes small meals.

 

[JAS101]

lol i bet she was thinking , i poo bigger then this lol

 

[disintegratus]

I'd say upgrade to something just about the size of your hand, that should go down nicely!

 

[TaraLeigh]

My eyes bulged more at the 53 mice! Aha.
Good form. I did this the other day with my Coastal and Bredli, they had Stimmo sized snacks after their normal meal.
The Bredli cuddled it for a bit, must have thought it was cute, then I came back and it was gone.
The Coastal smashed it after checking it out a bit, confused, making my arm hurt.
Cheers for sharing.

 

[cuddle_python]

Yeah I'd go with a larger meal for sure at least 1.5 times the width of the fattest part of the snake