Is My Stimsons Underweight?

[Robes63]

Hi all.

Ive had my stimsons for just over a week. The person i got him from said he was 6 months old. After a bit of reading I'm thinking he should be a lot larger for his age. Currently aprrox. 30cm and 13 grams (2 days after feed).

I fed him one pinkie mouse the day after i got him. Then 2 pinkies 5 days later. Has taken all straight away.

The questions i have are.
1. Does he seem underweight
2. Is he actually younger than i was told.
3. Is he still too small for fuzzy mice

Not the best picture below but good size reference next to a cuetip

 

[kittycat17]

I would defintely up the food size, pinkys don't have much nutritional value.
With prey size they can take much larger meals than themselves I usually got 1.5 x the width of the snake
6 mths old would be right for this time of year as that's when egg hatching season was


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[Robes63]

Thanks kittycat

It sounded like he was fed one pinkie a week so definatley want to start feeding him something more substantial.

Do you think i could offer 3 pinkies a meal to finish the pack or just move straight to fuzzies?

 

[SpottedPythons]

Finish off the packet. Don't feed them all at once, maybe over the course of a week? It looks to me from the photo the snake is younger than 6 months... Spotteds are a similar species and at six months mine would already be on fuzzies/hoppers. I doubt your Stimmie is underweight or unhealthy, all snakes are different individually. Happy herping!

 

[Robes63]

Finish off the packet. Don't feed them all at once, maybe over the course of a week? It looks to me from the photo the snake is younger than 6 months... Spotteds are a similar species and at six months mine would already be on fuzzies/hoppers. I doubt your Stimmie is underweight or unhealthy, all snakes are different individually. Happy herping!

Thanks for the advice. I'll finish these off and get him some fuzzies

 

[MANNING]

Another possibility could be to jump up to the next size and feed one of each. Wouldnt hurt to finish them off.

 

[MANNING]

Pictures can be deceiving.. I looked at the picture again and noticed the cotton tip comparison.. haha

 

[Robes63]

Haha. Yeah pretty tiny.
I might try one of each and see if he takes them. A couple of large feeds cant hurt

 

[SpottedPythons]

I'd suggest trying him on fuzzy and maybe hopper if he seems confident.

 

[Robes63]

I'll see how he goes with the fuzzies. If he gets them down easy and grows a bit i'll have a look at the next size up