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I have always liked small prey items.

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Posted by: SHvar at Fri Oct 19 11:32:26 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SHvar ]  
   

It seems to work great to feed large amounts and to get them to grow fast.
Heres why, they can digest many small items faster with less effort and less energy used than with a single large item, ergo, they get more benefit from each meal.
Keep in mind they can grow fast on larger items, but this requires more heat, more temperature range, and more humidity range. This tells you that if you dont have so good of options in your cages, go with many small items.
I fed 6-9 large mice a day to my albigs from 3ft to about 5ft in length with a few rare large meals. Its not hard to keep hundreds of frozen mice around and to get them cheap if you look around.
Also I keep hundreds of chicken peeps, albigs seem to be drawn to birds a bit more than mice, and they require a bit less in numbers, say 6 instead of 9.
My adult flavi-argus eats many peeps, and in between big meals such as guinea pigs, Sobek eats the same, but sometimes more guinea pigs. Keep in mind the size difference between the 2 examples I used, one is 6.5ft (33 lbs)and one is 4ft (about 6-9 lbs).


   

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