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JTColubrids
at Sat Oct 24 13:12:36 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JTColubrids ]
I have a large collection of brooksi and have babies that just hatched 3 weeks ago. Thier first meal, after their first shed, was two large pinkies each. They each ate a good-sized fuzzy for both their second and third meals, and they are now taking hoppers EASILY. Brooks Kings will eat larger food items than you might expect. Within a month ALL of my hatchlings are on hoppers, and some are even taking two at a time. I feed them every 2-3 days and most of them will eat each time I offer food. If your snake can not eat an item as big as you try and feed them, they will simply try and eat it and then give up. When this happens to me, which it happens very rarely, I wait two days and offer two smaller items. Be sure to feed them as much as they can eat as food once a week will not allow them to reach their potential and for Brooksi, it will be literally starving them. I move mine to the next food size ASAP so that they can get the calcium, protein, and fats from a more mature mouse as pinks are mostly water. GOOD LUCK! BROOKSI RULE!!!
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RE: rodent order, need some advice - JTColubrids, Sat Oct 24 13:12:36 2009