Feeding guidelines for small twin?

:sweeet: Yup, you & your Beep have made the "club", lol.

He really looks amazing and well proportioned to me. Are you feeding him live or f/t ? Congratulations on raising a most handsome twin to his fullness. Continue the good work.

Thanks! He's a very good boy, he just has his quirks. I've been lucky, I switched both my snakes to f/t as soon as they got here and they both went for it. In Ponzu's case though he has kind of a sensitive personality and kept going out of "food mode" to look nervously at the tongs or at me during feeding, so I started showing him the rat, giving it a shake or two to get him interested, then quietly leaving it for him to retrieve later and putting a towel over the tank to keep it dark and quiet. He seems to prefer this. The female on the other hand is so voracious I'm lucky if I can get the rat in the bin before she launches herself at it - she's never waited long enough to even notice the rats are thawed now I don't think. She's a strike first ask questions later type. I have to put a towel over her too after feeding, but it's because otherwise she strikes wildly at the walls every time I walk past, just in case there's more food coming :P

Yeah, he sounds typical behavior of some balls. But she sounds like she’s got some reticulated in her! Haha.



:D

I assumed the food fixation was just a baby thing, but some people have told me BPs sometimes are just like that, especially females. If she were gravid in the future I imagine she'd revert to this behavior because she knows she needs as many calories as she can get for the babies. In any case I started tap-training her even though I felt silly doing it for such a small snake, but someone pointed out this will be less cute if she winds up weighing 3kg at 4 feet long :D. She's quite smart and quickly picked up on "food is here" vs "time for handling" so we haven't had any actual bite incidents (yet).