I have only young snakes from '08 onward. My pyros like to eat for the most part every ten days. Multiple small meals. Some do like to eat more often and so I feed those guys more often. My pituophis generally would eat until their eyes pop out, but I am careful to feed them just enough to fill them but not stuff them as pits seem more prone to regurge if they eat too much at a feeding. As my snakes age I will make sure they do not get fat. I have a friend who was trying to slim down a 15 year old corn snake she had inherited which was so fat he looked like a sausage with the tail being the end of the casing, and his body felt squishy. YEEG!



I give my snakes as big of habitats as I can provide with things to crawl around in and deep substrate to burrow in, and other things to push or climb around on. So they can have some exercise. The opportunity for exercise cannot be stressed enough, in my opinion. I eat more calories than my partner but am leaner even though I am much shorter than him because he has a heart condition and exercise is difficult for him to do, whereas I can stack firewood for hours, other such vigorous exercise. Any animal kept in a little box with no way to exercise will likely get fat. Making it go on a diet or chronically underfeeding it is not the answer. More opportunities for exercise will greatly help it stay lean.
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Bob

Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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