I'm glad you scored the nice albino mosaic and are feeding it, because whoever had it before was really neglecting the snake in regards to feeding. But it really needs to be fed much larger meals too. That said, it's also smart not to make its more delicate system that isn't used to processing these decent sized meals all of the sudden have to,...risking a regurge. So feed it two small ones like that a couple times then up the size like I mentioned. That way its stomach is accustomed to processing meals and getting the acids back up to balance beforehand and can handle it far more easily without the risk of a regurge.

It should be eating meals of size that it has to work at getting down that produce a decent visual mid-body bulge. And it also has to have enough warmth on one far end to help properly digest the larger rodents as well. This is VERY IMPORTANT to remember to do!!

Two of these is the size of what it should easily be eating after a few easier meals and the proper heat on one end only to allow proper digestion without regurging.



You can see the bulge from the other one it just ate prior to taking this one down too.



As it got larger, so do the meals.....Many people get used to, and keep feeding their young snakes the same sized rodents they were eating months before, and that simply isn't enough. The meals have to keep coinciding with their growing size.







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