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RE: new owner lots of questions = long post

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Posted by: jfmoore at Tue Jan 31 12:53:30 2006  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jfmoore ]  
   

Let the age and condition of the animal be your guide as far as size and frequency of meals. Also, you might consider just leaving the next meal at the entrance of the hide box without requiring the animal to come out.



I fed the red Candoia in the photo only 8 times last year; the meals ranged from one mouse up to one 100 gram rat. But that is an old animal which I allowed to feed too frequently in the past and he put on too much weight.



-Joan







>>Thank you so much for putting up with my questions.

>>

>>Every care sheet I've read says to feed them every 3 weeks or so. That's where I was coming from. I guess it comes down to whether my particular snake is putting on weight like you said.

>>I'll offer a mouse later this week if she ever comes back out of her hide.



   

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