feeding ?

[ron]

just got samson end of july.. he is just over yr old.. ok the ? i have been feeding him 2 adult f/t mice every friday and seem ok but now after the 2 he is staying out of his hide for awhile moving around tank abit tongue flicking out could he still want more? is ok to give another mouse? was thinking of going to rats but the only petstore i could find here only has full grown rats that would be way to big

[hoo-t]

Its kind of hard to know if 3 is ok based purely on age. I have some 1 year olds that are taking two mice per week, and a couple of 2 year olds that get the same.

With my snakes that get frozen thawed rats, I have based the size of the rat on roughly 10% of the weight of the snake. So a 600 gram snake would get a rat that is 50-60 grams.

However, your snake will do fine on 2 mice per week.

Steve