Now that I've just given some advice, hopefully it was good regarding feeding; I have a question myself.

We have a 1 year 1 month old, female, 30" Royal. I've had excellent luck with her feeding and have run the feeder chain from small mice to adult, to xl adult, to the first step in rats. I just bought 5 medium rats as the smaller ones were not leaving a bulge and didn't seem a lot larger than the xl mice.

The medium rats look like dogs LOL! I did circle my hand around them, and they were only slightly larger than the girth of the snake and I actually took one out and placed it next to her mid body and it seemed only a bit thicker. But, they are really long bodied. I was shocked at how big overall they seemed.

Is this the right step? There was nothing between the small rat and the medium so I assume this is the next step. I've read and been told you go by girth, and I guess this is the "next step" but I just don't want her to get in trouble trying to swallow something that seems big to me. The guy at the store said these rats could be the last size step I'd need for the snake so I guess we're in the big leagues and she'll be growing a lot now.

Let me know if something doesn't sound right, I am going to give her a few more days than usual between feedings this time so I'll see what people here say. I do have 1 XL mouse left and 1 small rat left but think she's ready, I hope.