HooWEEEE!, to much to think about for me. i just feed the dickens out of them the first two years and then keep an eye on them as adults. That means feed them as much as they will eat and every day if they take food. In time you will firgure out how lomng it takes to digest the food and if they WILL take more.



As far as large meals. I have caught a lot of flack here for telling people to feed larger mice to neonates and subadults. But it is real simple. If the mouse is half eaten and left , that means it was too big for the snake. Snake try to eat meals that are too big all the time in natire. We don't have to spoon feed a neonate pinkies for the first six weeks. I try and get the Aflorida kings on fuzzies right after their first pinky or two. Once they take the fuzzy "*BLAM!*" they have a groth spurt. it is amazing to see this for the first time. Next is get them on hoppers and again "*BLAM*" annother groth spurt. there is just something about a more complete meal that causes this.



I have been double clucthing 20" females the first year and all my females put out two clutches. So that means I still have to feed my females like crazy . Males not so much. i don't worry about them because with florida kings the males get bigger and grow faster (..they must have more testosterone than other male snakes )so their potential to get fat is greater. So my males are usually lean. Well at least what i call lean..



Now with other snakes it is all different. That is why i don't subscribe to feeding schedules or a receipe for any snake. Best thing is use your head and hopefully one will develope a "green thumb" for whatever spp they are working with.





yearling female-

I think she was only 9 months old when this was taken:


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