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My pastel male got his first good strike on me today and it beld a little but wasnt too bad, now i am not so nervouse about handling him now that i know its not that bad. it hurt but its cool. and thanks for the advice on feeding him more, he has been eating like a horse. one more thing how do you know if you overfeed? everytime i offer he eats and i dont wanna overfeed him

Easy way to not over-feed...feed him one prey item of correct size, once a week.
So pick a day, like let's say...Saturday, and feed him one prey item on only Saturdays. Problem solved.

A prey item of the correct size is about as thick as the thickest part of your snake.

and there you go. Crisis averted.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

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I would say if he is young feed right size prey every 5 days, I do that till about a year old then go to 7 days.

yeah he was born november of 07 and he weighs almost 350g, i usually feed him two small rats a week tuesdays and saturdays and he always eats them

5-7 days for babies is a fine schedule.