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I just received my postal scale for weighing my snakes, and I checked my California King tonight. He's about 38 to 40 inches long and weighs 315 grams. I know that people over here don't talk about weights as much as the ball python people do, but I'm wondering what others think of this length and weight. Would you consider this to be the sign of a healthy snake? I've had him about six or seven weeks now. I fed him fuzzies and pinkies at first because that's what the pet store fed him. On nearly everyone's advice, I've moved him up to adult mice, and he seems happy with the move. He's an aggressive eater and doesn't seem to have any problem taking the adults. A few weeks ago, we had a thread about people feeding baby quail to kingsnakes. I'm considering getting some frozen baby quail and alternating them with the mice. I'd think that kingsnakes in the wild would grab a few baby quail if they had the chance. What do others think?

Thanks,

Bill

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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

Hey Bill, If I were you I'd bump it up to two adult mice every 10 days or so, It wont hurt and if you wan't weight on your snake but not to much weight then thats the way to do it. The thing with the alternating between Mice/qauil thing thats bad is that what if your snake decides he doesn't want to eat mice anymore after tasting this bird that probably taste's better? Then you my friend will have to buy qauil from there or you will be doing some scenting for the next few weeks. But if I were you I'd stick to mice unless you have no problem buying qauil in bulk from rodent pro. Then what happens if he doesn't even take to qauil?