No, you are definitely correct. When I had my piceus, he did not fare very well if fed large mice, or more than one small adult mouse at a time. He would almost invariably regurgitate. I fed him one small adult mouse a week, and that seemed to do the trick.

The whipsnake seems to do be the same way, though it will eat two or more rat pups at a time if given the opportunity. I would almost say that I prefer those over the mice too, and the snakes don't complain.

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Roy Blodgett

Green Man Herpetoculture

royreptile@yahoo.com



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