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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sdaji" data-source="post: 2536679" data-attributes="member: 688">I'm not saying feeding them less doesn't work. I say it does. I'm just saying he's making a claim which has no evidence at all. I'm not doing that.This is definitely bad advice. It works sometimes, and yes, in those cases it's fine, but in other cases it doesn't work, which means that it's not a good general piece of advice to give. It works especially poorly for young Morelia which are currently on the lean side, which is clearly the case here. Look at a skinny 6 month old carpet and put a mouse of the same width as its body next to it. Clearly that's too small a feed. It leads to a skinny snake not getting enough to eat! On the other hand, get a fat snake and despite being the same length, this rule would tell you to give the fat snake more food! Clearly, a rule which says you should feed an obese snake more than a skinny snake isn't a good rule. It also doesn't take into account different species and their different body proportions. I think we can all agree that the store's advice is bad.I'm sure his snakes are perfectly healthy and I wouldn't call them stunted. It's just silly to say they live longer since snakes can live longer than Australians have been keeping snakes in any numbers worth mentioning. Unless he's just comparing to snakes which are morbidly obese, in which case it's a no brainer, meaningless claim. I haven't found growing snakes quickly to do anything harmful, and they live at least 20+ years (still counting). This is not the same as getting snakes fat, which is clearly a problem. You can't claim your snakes live longer than other peoples' snakes if you don't actually have old snakes. Even if he had 30-40 year old snakes, which I'm sure he doesn't, we still don't have snakes which are dying younger than that due to having been grown quickly when young, so it's an empty claim.</blockquote>

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