You people may be advising larger meals, say rat pups, but regardless of his age... he only said his BP was 17 inches. Wouldn't that be far too stressful on him? I agree with upping the food size, but it seems like people have ignored that fact and jumped straight to ridiculously larger meals for his size.
Personally, I think the underfeeding is what lead to this size... My male BP is only 5 months old but he's around 26-27 inches and 385 grams, measured today. Really full & healthy. He can take a small rat because of his length, but going by the 10% standard, he can take 38.5 grams of food. Weaned rats for him... If you push it and do the 15%, then its somewhere around 45 grams thus the small rat. Not saying everyone follows this, but if you compare these numbers to something like a rat pup for a 17 incher, it just seems like way too much food. He said he hasn't weighed, but I'm guessing he's considerably less than my big guy.
based on this chart http://iansvivarium.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=75#p248
Rat fuzzies sound like the better choice with the standard 5-7 day feeding schedule.
I'm no expert but it just seems like obvious stuff people are disregarding here.
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