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Posted by: snake_bit at Sat Feb 21 21:26:03 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by snake_bit ]  
   

The amount a snake eats is directly proportional to the grows of the snake. I read somewhere that a snake will assimalate 1/3 of its meal to body mass. So if you feed the snake 3 mice it will increase body mass equal to one mouse? Im not sure thats right but maybe someone here with a good scale can study that.It seems a bit high,maybe 20%.
I feed my snakes as much as they like or as much as I can afford to.Remember that snakes dont have a 52 week schedule that stays the same all year.They are sesonal as in the case of milk snakes that eat like pigs in the spring then slow down in july/august then stop in the winter(some continue to eat yes I know).I stop feeding my adults in the winter for 3 or 4 months.No food at all just water.So in the spring when my snakes are back in feed mode I stuff them because this is the time of year they want to eat.
Now here is the question:
Is a snake that eats every week more healthy then a snake that eats every two weeks? Or even every three weeks? I say they can both have equal health. The weekly feeder will grow faster and will be better able to breed or survive in times of famine with its extra body fat (storage),but both are healthy.In the wild, snakes dont have the volume of food that they get in captivity.They may not eat every week.
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