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Hello,
I am wondering if you all would have some advise for feeding with the fastest/ healthiest growth rate? Several smaller meals as opposed to a larger? Smaller more offer? Ect.... Thanks...
Jonathan

smaller meals more often ....gives you a better snake....

rats ...huge...every week or more....gives you a bigger snake....fatter,,,with a small head....LOL...

now watch the naysayers differ......

feed it well....my thought ...if you feed a ball a huge meal and it isn't digested all the way...then you feed it a huge meal again...you will use more energy than letting smaller meals digest fully then feeding a second meal....

I fed ALOT of huge balls alot of huge mice....and they did very well......

yes I used rats also....not large....medium and smalls...even hoppers.....and gerbils and hamsters and deer mice and african soft furred and even a chick and guinea pig once in a great while....but for the most part I fed alot of mice.....and I might have fed a huge ball 4 times in a week.....then maybe not fed for 8 weeks....up to them.....(5 months not eating for a year old happens and is not cool for us...but they do it...so it's cool for them I guess......)
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........JY

I find with large meals sometimes the snake will not eat as regular then with smaller meals. So I guess I say smaller more often they actualy eat more that way

i have actually been doing an experiment myself on this and i find that the smaller meals do seem to do a bit better, i feed a.s.f's and they take longer to grow than regular norway so i have been feeding smaller meals more often, the biggest thing was i noticed they all have started eating more regularly, which in turn helps them grow quicker in my mind.

n/p