I didn't take it that way, and I wasn't aiming anything at you personally. My original point was, there was no surprise the snake wouldn't eat for you at the last attempt. Then the post turned to feeding in general, I only used the numbers you gave as an example, not to take a shot at you. I tried to say over and over "appropriate sized meal" so that it wouldn't seem that way, I think if you look at the post you'll see that, maybe I just didn't do well enough.

You absolutely can overfeed colubrids, I've seen ridiculously overweight snakes, and I've seen enough people ask why their snake was regurging, only to find out they are feeding the heck out of it. Regurge is a guarantee if you feed to much. Thankfully, it's something Kingsnakes recover from right away, not so at all in a lot of snakes. And not so in a LOT of colubrids.

I guess I'll ask why you are feeding a 4 foot kingsnake fuzzies? That snake should be eating adult mice for sure. If it's a finicky eater, maybe it's telling you something. And even that many small mice add up to a pretty large amount of food in the gut. If you haven't seen a ton of defecation, then it's all still in there.

Sometimes comments get taken wrong on a forum. I sometimes don't like to say anything because you never know how much experience the person you are responding to has. I don't mean to talk down to anyone at all, I actually hope I can sometimes help. You never know if it's someone's first snake, or if someone has a ton of knowledge and you're pissing them off, lol.
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Brian Suter

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