Thats funny, I put the eastern adult I mentioned on a serious diet and nothing changed, she just stayed fat. The lumps didn't change. Like you I fed her sparingly, changed her container and water and just paid no other attention for months. I suspect this snake would've survived a long time w/o food.



I'm wondering how big/long some of your floridana's get with the feeding regiman you have. I realize the females are breeding and that would cut back some on growth. Another female eastern I had back in the day was around 4-5 years old and 3.5' and didn't grow a whole lot over a two year stretch in which she bred, laid successful clutches etc. I fed her alot and she was boderline fat looking. The following year I didn't breed her, still fed her alot and damn if she didn't put on 6" of length that year. She was known to grab a finger or two, but I have to admit, the season she didn't breed and grew alot she became much more handleable. Perhaphs I could have been feeding her more in her times of extra need/egg producing. At the time I always worried that maybe I was overdoing the feeding. Hmmm...

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