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Bluerosy
at Sun May 22 08:50:20 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
Is there a limit to how much to feed your snake? I got a milk snake last Saturday and he ate 2 pinkies.
What kind of snake? You didn't mention that or what size he was!
Since this is the KINGsnake forum i will assume it is a king.
So to answer your question it sounds like everything you are doing is right. Sinc you are feeding PINKIES I will also assume it is a neonate and not a large adult.
You can feed growing kings as much as they can eat. You cannot overfeed them (espcially with pinkies since he/she was able to eat an anole.
Even though I don't know the size of your snake, I do know it ate a anole. So if it can eat an anole bump the size of the mice up to at least large fuzzie size. A king that was born last year should be on large mice already. It is not healthy for captive kingsnakes to be fed sparingly-~it causes problems later on in life and they will remain finicky weak captives.
So feed often. Preferrable as often as the snake wants to at. leave the choice to the snake and try not to assume what is too much or what you may have read somehwere (or even on this forum). I breed a large colony of kingsnakes for a number of years 9in the thousands) and yound snakes need to be fed as often as they will want to eat. if you offer food and they refuse, then just remove the food item.
Also keep bumping up the food size.
And don't forget to post a pic or at least details of what king you have and the age and size!!
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RE: Feeding amount. - Bluerosy, Sun May 22 08:50:20 2011