Feeding question!

[mfkelly]

My adult males all run between 800 and 1200 grams. What do you guys feed and how much. Mice/ Rats ,whatever is available, and would 1 large mouse every 7 days be enough or do you guys only feed, your boys per defecation. Just wondering, what a good maintenance feeding schedule would be for adult boys. My girls are on rats, smalls or larges depending on time of year and who is getting ready to breed.
Thanks,
Mike

[jjmitchell]

I try not to feed anybody anything but rats, my daughter is attempting to raise some asf's for my pickey mouse eaters so I can feed larger prey items verses several smaller items. Males that are basically done growth wise I feed one appropriate sized rat every 2 weeks

[zantedeschia]

I'm still trying to figure that one out myself. My big boy's appetite picked back up and I fed him 2 frozen small rats a week apart. He kept acting hungry, all my snakes are acting hungry so I fed them way early, 4 days after last feed. Both Paradox (900g) and Charade (300g) got 2 live adult mice. Feeding response was me dropping the mouse in, snake striking (from hide) 2 nanosconds after the mouse hit the ground. Repeat with second mouse (drop >thump<)

That was 2 days ago and I haven't seen a peep out of either of them since (except that one time Paradox came out to drink).

Edit: I should add Enigma never looks hungry. He coils up in a corner and looks ominous.

[zantedeschia]

Bah. Bah. Bah. Bah. I knew the mice I fed the corns were a tad too big. My main concern was digestion so I left them alone for a full 48 hours. Checked them tonight and Phoenix has got 3 bite marks in her side. They appear to be healing and probably look worse than they are, but that's gonna make me put them back on frozen. Bleh.