It is not healthy or even ethical to intentionally keep a snake small for resale purposes,.... but, she can feed them a decent size meal once every week to maintain health and not promote excessive growth. Such as a large mouse or weanling rat for the first 6 or 8 weeks, then gradually increase the size of the meal a bit to where the meal is the same size proportionately as the snake slowly grows. Assuming these burmese are 22 to 24 inch hatchlings, meals such as this should not make them grow more than 2 inches per month (or so) but will give them adequate sustenance. This should buy her roughly 6 months to sell them before they top 3 feet. Beyond this period of time, however I would suggest increasing the size of the food items considerably.
>>Hi. I have a cousin who is the manager at a pet store that never sells snakes and they just got a shipment of animals and there were 3 burms shipped to them accidentally.
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>>I can tell them the basic care of a snake (I have 3 cornsnakes) but is there anything else specific I should tell her?
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>>Also, my main question is how can she humanly (AKA without starving them) keep them under 3 feet for the longest possible time frame? There is a law in our county that it is illegal to sell a snake longer than 3 feet. I know that these guys are going to quickly double their size in no time, but can someone tell me what the bare minimum is okay to feed them. Otherwise they are going to have to get rid of them.
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>>0.1 '02 Ghost (pastel) cornsnake (Banshee)
>>1.1 '02 Bloodred cornsnakes (Desi and Luci Too)
>>0.0.3 Goldfish (Kabuki, Isamu, and Yuki)
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