Steve,



I hate to disagree with you, but in our experience size of the meal does matter. Many times these guys will feed like crazy and then all of a sudden they will start having problems. We suggest feeding once per week a smaller than normal meal and they do much better. Speed of growth is not as important to us as the overall health of the snakes which we feel is insured by slow steady growth as versus pushing them. Additonally we also suggest temps that are in teh range or 72 - 78 as a maximum range, with a night drop down to about 72. The adults even do better as far as breeding etc. at these lower temps. These are high elevation montane animals and are rarely sujected to really high temps. We do agree with you though that getting them on rat pups as soon as they can take them will provide increased growth and weight.



Below is a pic of a partial stripe Limburg line deppei deppei, neat light blue ground color also.



John Cherry

Cherryville Farms

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