So, I've been keeping all of my BP's on a six-day feeding schedule. It's convenient for me, and it seemed to suit the recommendations I've seen as far as feeding frequency for young snakes goes.

However, the three I got most recently are, to me, a bit skinny... my CH boy is tiny, and the '14 Pastel Pied is smaller than my '15 Black Widow by quite a bit. So when I walked by their cages, and three little heads popped out of hides and whipped into S-curves, I figured... well, it's only been four days since they were fed, but everyone is looking well digested - and HUNGRY. Also, I wanted to thin out the young adult mice in the male cage.

So I grabbed three mice - I want to switch everyone who I can to F/T, but in the meanwhile I've got cages full of mice that I'm not breeding anymore, since I got some rats - and popped them into the cages. Suffice to say that I got a reminder to use the tongs, even when dropping a live mouse in. I didn't get bit, but there were three resounding THUMPs and three fewer live mice. The last tail is vanishing down a throat as I type.

Weights were 165g ('14 Pastel Pied), 155g ('15 Pastel het Pied), and 81g ('15 CH Handsome) as of last week, and they each got a young adult mouse - right around 20g - on the 16th. They got another of about the same size today.

And no, 'Handsome' isn't a morph... at least if it is, it's one I haven't heard of. But handsome he is! Took Lue out the other day, and he was all shimmery with iridescence. He's probably just getting ready to shed.