Feeding Question?

I feed him f/t. The problem is the fuzzies are just a bit smaller the tut's girth which is why i give him 2, but the adult mice are a bit bigger than him. I quess im in the "bad mouse size" age.

i would give him one that is a bit bigger, im sure he can handle it as long as it isnt to huuge

My baby is about the same size as yours. She's 3 months old tommorrow, and already on adult mice. She's been eating adults since early August. I wasn't sure how big an adult mouse was, so when I went and got a few frozen mice from the petstore, I asked for smallish adult mice. I ended up getting hoppers/weanlings. They were a bit smaller than my Pelota's girth, so I gave her two for that feeding time. Right after that, she put on some girth, so now I'm hoping to get my hands on an adult mouse for this friday. Then after that's done, hopefully next week I can find some rat pups(if I can get a ride to windsor and find a petstore that carries them), and she'll be growing like a weed.

So anyway, if you ask me, I'm sure your baby can take an adult mouse. They're really not as big as I thought(I hear adult mouse and expect something big I guess..but they're tiny) and as long as they're the same size, or a bit bigger than the girth of your bp, it'll go down fine.

Ok here's another feeding question:

I would like to keep my bp healthy, yet not have him grow so fast. So what would you recommend for me to feed him properly, yet not over do it? And approx. how fast do they grow to full size?

I dunno..I would say just regular feedings of appropriate sized meals would be a normal healthy growth. And it's not always the same, but usually around 3 years old they're full grown. They'll still put on a little girth, but I think length-wise, they're full grown by then.

It would be safe to only feed every 10-14 days. There's a breeder up here that only feeds his bp's once every two months after the initial 3 meals, normals and spiders alike. He believes this is the key to ensuring a good eater, by imprinting the sensation of hunger in their primitive brains. I got some of my females from him, and I have to say they all literally eat like boas. Now, I wouldn't go as extreme as two months, but your BP wouldn't be any worse for wear if you only fed it every 2 weeks. In fact, limiting caloric intake may even prolong its life.

Def feed regularly - one appropriate sized rodent - as they'll only max out at 5 feet or so you really don't have much to worry about size wise. Anything you'd do to try and restrict growth through diet could only be detrimental IMO - just flies in the face off nutrition.