First if she is 15"inches you need to bump up the size of the mice to fuzzy or hopper size. Give her the largest mouse she can eat.



Also feed her as much as she wants. She is growing. So you don't have to worry about ovefeeding. The more she eats, grows, the stronger and healthier a captive she will be.



The only problem I see with 15" Cal king that wre purchased from an unkown source (not breeder direct) is, HOW OLD is she?



What happens with cal kings and other colubrids being fed 1x per week on pinkies or even larger mice when the snake gets bigger- is the snake becomes unhealthy and finicky. This results in a snake that will not eat like a normal healthy snake because it has been malnutritioned for a long p[eriod time. Unfortunatly this is something we see quite commonly with colubrids 9aka kings, milks, ratsnakes). That is why it is important to know if your snake was born in 2011 or 2010?? If she is a 2010, that is bad because somebody followed some petshop textbook recipe on feeding a snake a certain size (usually to small) meal 1x per week. Nothing is worse in the hobby than this advice giving by so called self proclaimed experts.



Try to think of this this. **A snake does not need our help to survive in the wild. They have choces out there and do well to make those choices on their own.



So please offer food often. Maybe she will refuse. Maybe she will eat. Also offer temperature "CHOICES".. A heat pad on one end where the snake can thermoregualte it own temperature by moving to hot and cold.



**These are not domesticted pets like cats, dogs or even ferrets where the animal has had all natrual unstincts bred out. A snake is quite capable of making choice while other domesticated "pets" do not pocess this ability any lobger.



So offer as many choices as possible. Food avaliabilty, temperature, humidity ect.
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