You should only buy 100 small pinkies, or less if you can. Your snake should outgrow small pinkies quickly. (IE after 10-12 weeks) They are not very nutritious. It will be onto larger stuff in no time. If this is your only snake it may be worth it to buy food locally until your snake is on its adult size prey.

As far as a feeding schedule... this is something that is hotly debated and for the life of me I can't figure out why. Snakes do not care about your schedule. A week means nothing to them. All that matters to them is whether they are hungry or not and whether or not they have the conditions that they need to digest and grow rapidly. My snakes have different conditions than yours so how could we say that we will all just feed our snakes once a week.

Assuming your temperature gradient is really good, you should be able to feed your snake as much as it wants!

People will tell you that your snake will get fat. I used to believe this as well. A YOUNG snake WILL NOT GET FAT IF IT HAS THE RIGHT CONDITIONS, it will just grow faster. If conditions are marginal and the snake can not control its metabolism then obesity/regurgitation/constipation/pin head syndrome ect all may result from overfeeding. This does not apply 100% to adult snakes.

No one should ever feed their snake once a week. You should feed based on your conditions and your snake. If your snake is not fat and it is still eating small pinks after 3 months, you need to feed more often! If its not hungry it won't eat. If its out every night looking for food... feed it. If its under its hide digesting its last meal... leave it alone. Going by poop is OK but not all snakes are the same. Many animals will eat a few times between each defication.

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• Children's Python feeding question - rachel4rent, Thu Jun 18 13:15:49 2009
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