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When should I move my baby honduran up to fuzzies?

>>When should I move my baby honduran up to fuzzies?

when they're big enough that a fuzzy will make a modestly observable lump in the snake's body after eaten, comparable to what a smaller food item looked like in the snake when the snake was smaller.

(I know that's a vague answer, but it's better than "thursday" or "april 17", eh? the problem is "baby honduran" leaves an awful lot to the imagination--a newborn weighs maybe 17 to 25 grams; some people might consider a 100 gram juvenile still a baby, as opposed to an adult or subadult category. Similarly, what's a fuzzy? I'm sure that juvenile mice with fur that's not grown to full length could vary by size and body weight by a factor of at least 2x or 3x. So it's sorta hard to give a precise answer. You just want to continue graduating the snake to suitably-sized food items, not bigger or smaller than what it was consuming earlier, relative to its body size.

terry
albino tricolors

I fed my tangerine honduran up to 3 pinkies before switching to fuzzies. He is 9 months old this month (April). He is eating 2 fuzzies now with no problems. And is about forearms length. I don't know how much he weighs.