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rtdunham
at Thu Apr 1 13:51:56 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rtdunham ]
>>When should I move my baby honduran up to fuzzies?
when they're big enough that a fuzzy will make a modestly observable lump in the snake's body after eaten, comparable to what a smaller food item looked like in the snake when the snake was smaller.
(I know that's a vague answer, but it's better than "thursday" or "april 17", eh? the problem is "baby honduran" leaves an awful lot to the imagination--a newborn weighs maybe 17 to 25 grams; some people might consider a 100 gram juvenile still a baby, as opposed to an adult or subadult category. Similarly, what's a fuzzy? I'm sure that juvenile mice with fur that's not grown to full length could vary by size and body weight by a factor of at least 2x or 3x. So it's sorta hard to give a precise answer. You just want to continue graduating the snake to suitably-sized food items, not bigger or smaller than what it was consuming earlier, relative to its body size.
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