My vet explained this to me once, but I could never quite put it into words and remember his explaination as to why it is better to feed say 2 smaller prey items versus 1 larger item in a single feeding. Below is a link to an interesting discussion on another forum - it starts out kind of talking about something else but ends up with the reasoning behind this method. I do this now with my snakes....it initially started because I had a lot of smaller prey to use up before buying something larger. But now I think I'll continue the method with most of my snakes (the good eaters) and perhaps combine with the 'variety' method - alternating between different aged prey.

I was wondering if anyone else feeds multiple smaller prey instead of a single large item - on purpose that is.

http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/showt...threadid=45445