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<blockquote data-quote="Sdaji" data-source="post: 2540587" data-attributes="member: 688"><p>That feed size is too small, especially if you're only feeding every 7-10 days.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I often have hundreds of snakes to feed on feeding days, I don't get fanatical about such things. They get fed on feed day, if they're sloughing I might feed them anyway (in which case I'll go for a small feed), if not they miss a feed. I don't feed every snake every feed day, I generally thaw a pile of rodents and pick one of the right size out of the pile to offer to each snake. With older ones if I finish up with a few hungry mouths left they can wait until next week, if they look heavy enough I'll leave them (sometimes for multiple weeks), young growing juveniles are never skipped unless they are sloughing, and even then I'll usually give them a small meal.</p><p></p><p>If for whatever reason I am treating a snake like royalty (an absolute favourite or very high priority snake) I'll usually feed it every 4-5 days as a youngster. I didn't do that with any this season or last, I just gave the high priority ones feeds on the large side (I wouldn't recommend this to a beginner) each week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sdaji, post: 2540587, member: 688"] That feed size is too small, especially if you're only feeding every 7-10 days. I often have hundreds of snakes to feed on feeding days, I don't get fanatical about such things. They get fed on feed day, if they're sloughing I might feed them anyway (in which case I'll go for a small feed), if not they miss a feed. I don't feed every snake every feed day, I generally thaw a pile of rodents and pick one of the right size out of the pile to offer to each snake. With older ones if I finish up with a few hungry mouths left they can wait until next week, if they look heavy enough I'll leave them (sometimes for multiple weeks), young growing juveniles are never skipped unless they are sloughing, and even then I'll usually give them a small meal. If for whatever reason I am treating a snake like royalty (an absolute favourite or very high priority snake) I'll usually feed it every 4-5 days as a youngster. I didn't do that with any this season or last, I just gave the high priority ones feeds on the large side (I wouldn't recommend this to a beginner) each week. [/QUOTE]
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