Hello....at one point I remember someone posting a general feeding guideline for corns...it listed the length of the snake, and the size mouse thats appropriete... for example..my corn is 19 inches long now...he is on fuzzys, but should he eat one fuzzy or two fuzzys?.. I fed him two fuzzys last Thursday(8/24)..and today 8/27 the bulge is gone, and he is out hunting again...Maybe its time for a hopper? im not sure how big hoppers are....either way, if someone can please post that guideline that they had, it would be greatly appreciated..thank you...
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feeding guideline?
yankeeslover
Jul 27, 2009 10:23 AM
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draybar
Jul 27, 2009 06:12 PM
>>Hello....at one point I remember someone posting a general feeding guideline for corns...it listed the length of the snake, and the size mouse thats appropriete... for example..my corn is 19 inches long now...he is on fuzzys, but should he eat one fuzzy or two fuzzys?.. I fed him two fuzzys last Thursday(8/24)..and today 8/27 the bulge is gone, and he is out hunting again...Maybe its time for a hopper? im not sure how big hoppers are....either way, if someone can please post that guideline that they had, it would be greatly appreciated..thank you...
You could probably go ahead and up him to small hoppers.
There are just as many feeding routines as there are people who keep corns.
I just use the "bulge" guidline.
I start my hatchlings with one pinkie a week (a lot of people recommend every four or five days)
I feed them one pinkie a week until a pinkie doesn't leave a noticeable bulge.
I then go to two pinkies a week.
When two pinkies fail to leave a noticeable bulge I got to one fuzzy a week
Then two fuzzies
then one hopper
then two hoppers
then one adult...and as a regular feeding schedule I stay at one adult.
just the way I do it
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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cherokee_reptile
Jul 27, 2009 07:27 PM
I totally agree with this about eveyone has a different feeding schedule. My lil ones get 2 pinkies a week approx. 1 every 3-4 days. I would rather feed a smaller food item a lil more often then to feed 2 at a time. As for my adults they wither get 1 adult mouse or 2 small hoppers a week. A lil off subject even with my BRB and ball pythons they get a few 3-4 mice a week 2 a feeding.
Tom
