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I bought my little guy/girl from a place that was feeding 4 pinkys per feeding. Its 3 months old. Spruce nubble farms shows their feed records as one pinky up until they feed fuzzys. Is it okay to feed multiple pinkys and does this sound like too much food for it?

I feed/offer ALL my gtps an appropriate sized meal once a week. From newly hatched neonates to full grown adults. The neonates get day old pinks until they have grown a bit, then I upsize to large pinks, then fuzzies, hoppers and so on. I feed my largest 2k gm girls Jumbo mice and they are extremely healthy on these regular meals.

I think this species is important to grow up slow and steady, no need to power feed or try to bulk up quickly. Too many health related issues with improper diet, prolapses, obesity, poor fertility etc.

I'd definitely back off on those meals a lot. I like it when my snakes start to "hunt" again before getting their next meal.

Poor little guy! I cut back to two pinkys every 5 days per recommendations from many people. He looked so hungry yesterday after feeding but I don't want a fatty so He'll have to get used to it.

I'm with Jungledancer on this one, I'd stick with appropriate size meals..... On another forum a friend of mine posted a thread that he fed a sub yearling (i believe it was) a meal that was first thought to be decent size but in retrospect might have been a tad too large. He found the animal dead the next morning , not to say that directly led to cause of death but he may have inadvertantly led to it.
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Mike Rico

"Rico's Reptiles"