x4 mine refuses food during shed defently when he's getting eye caps.
01-15-2009, 11:42 PM
Slim
Re: Shed feeding
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Originally Posted by murray2213
The large fuzzies I have been picking are just about the same size as
a hopper. Prey is the same size as the thickest part of his body.
I don't have a scale small enough to weigh him so I'm not sure of
his exact weight. Should I be going with bigger prey?
I think mouse fuzzies are a little small for a BP that age. Most hatchlings can take down a hopper the day after their first shed.
You might want to go with 15ish gram hoppers until you're ready to try small adult mice.
By the time he's 150 grams, he should be able to knock down 20 gram mice with no trouble...and it just so happens that fuzzy rats are about 20 grams as well, so that might be a good time to make the switch from mice to rats if he'll take them.
