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Adolescent/Adult Feeding
Okay quick question. I've always gone by the 10-15% weight rule for feeding my BP, Lucifer (1.5 yr old male Super Pastel **hopefully I'll be unlazy and get new pics cause he's really pretty, no browing to really speak of**) but I kinda fell into the habit of feeding him 3 mice/week. Each one is roughly 20g, maybe 22g, but all in all its around 60g of food.
I've tried swapping to rats, and he will have nothing of it. (I think it might be because we have pet rats (not food! and they are also awesome!) and they live in the same room as he, so he smells them all the time and doesn't associate that smell with food).
Anyway. Lucifer is around 1,000g (he was 994g 3 weeks ago right after deficating) and has been growing at a pretty steady clip, but at this point, its hard to tell if he is still growing or not, he's just so big! I was under the impression that males typically grow slower than females, and comping to my brothers female who is now 2 years old, maybe a hair shy of it, but is around the same size, 1,000g.
So this is the longwinded question of, am I feeding Luci too little? He appears to still be growing and healthy, but at what age do you cut that 10-15% of their weight down, and how far? When are they adults? I don't feel like he's starving to death, but isn't obese either (no spaces betweent he scales or anything like that). I think I'm doing fine, but want to know from the pro's! Thanks!
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