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Old 16-07-2007, 01:59 PM
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I have established a good feeding routine for my 2 month old normal corn, I have been feeding him a small defrosted pinky once every 6 days.

I read somewhere that you can give them two at a time (they would eat a whole mouse nest in the wild if they found one) so I did this last night.

If he will eat two can I feed him two each time? How long until i move up to bigger mice etC?

It was the first time he ate while I was holding him, and he ate both down and then went straight to sleep.
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Old 17-07-2007, 12:57 PM
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Give As Much As They Can Eat In 10 Minutes. Or Near Anuf That Time.

I Give Mine 2 Every Week Also.

To Upgrade To A New Size, You Should Give The Food Item The Size Of The Largest Girth Of The Snake. But If The Snakes Are The Skinny Type (Corns/Milks/Kings) Then You May Have to feed 2-3 smaller food items.

But its better to feed one big prey item.

I feed 2 rat pups to my Milk, Corn and BRB.
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Old 17-07-2007, 01:00 PM
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yeah, i feed mine like this

firstly one pinkie, then

two pinkies

three pinkies(cause our fluffs always teld to be on the large side)

then fluff
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Old 17-07-2007, 01:05 PM
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Ok well I shall carry on with the two at a time, he was more than happy to eat them.

I read somewhere that fluffs have a lot more calcium etc than pinks so I imagine its better to get onto pinks asap?
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you usually notice a difference in your snakes when they eventually hit fluffs, all ours look and act totally different, we just use the 3 pinkie step based on the size our fluffs have been lately
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use larger mice when he seems to be at the appropriate size , apperently small mice and fluffs have more calcium and are better for them, sylvester is on 1 sometimes 2 small mice a week.
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Old 17-07-2007, 01:29 PM
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Ok up to two and three pinkies for now, he is still too icckle for fluffs.

What happens to their behaviour?
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Ok up to two and three pinkies for now, he is still too icckle for fluffs.

What happens to their behaviour?
well, it could be just a coincidence of their size(and therefore their confidence), but they get noticable more active, or thats what ive noticed
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Old 17-07-2007, 02:05 PM
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Oh thats great news! Mine has taken to climbing a lot and sitting on the roof, but more activity would be ideal!
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