My baby Hog Island is 10 months old & is being fed a small rat each Sunday evening. He is growing well. He has always been the type to require "dancing rats" (I feed prekilled & he needs them to be moving around, on tongs, before he'll eat it). Well, I fed him on Sunday & tonight, when I cleaned out his water dish, he got into feeding mode & struck my finger, drawing blood. He's never done this before. I defrosted a rat & he immediately ate it, dancing of course.
My question is, do I need to be feeding him twice a week, or should I be feeding him larger prey? I hate to have my sweet guy become a snake I can't handle because he's always striking whatever's moving, but he just won't eat non-moving things...
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1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
0.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snake Jasmine
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1 Pacman frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad
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