Remember itty bitty little 7, my Fire girl?Originally Posted by angllady2
I know how you feel dear.
But I have to tell you, it never ceases to amaze me just how big a meal these tiny little things can eat. When I started feeding my new hatchlings, I snagged what looked like the right size hoppers out of one of my mouse bins and just started dropping them in. It wasn't until the babies finished eating, and I noticed how much they looked like they'd just swallowed a football, that I though maybe those mice were bigger than I thought.
However, no harm was done, and now the little feeding machines think they should have two instead of one!Me personally, I think they need to wait until they look a little less like a blimp after eating to get anything other than a single hopper.
Gale
Last night she wolfed down a big fat rat pink like it was a noodle and never even noticed it wasn't mouse flavored.
She was what...what 65 or so grams last month?
She's 180g, now.
Might to my delight, she's a little eating machine who never says "Don't want!" to supper.
Contrast that to my born May '11 male Fire who's just now figuring out that food is good and just hit the 500 gram mark.
[weirdly enough, all my snakes are pounding chow like it's gonna be outlawed tomorrow....especially freaky Ozzy, the former stud muffin Kobylka Bee]
I'm hoping this sudden mass gluttony means something good...and fertile....
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