Quote Originally Posted by AkHerps View Post
You're talking about managing weight, weight has nothing to do with anything. If a human eats too much to fast, they get fat, but will still grow at a normal speed, if a human eats less and healthier, they will be thinner and healthier, but still grow at a normal speed.

If you were to feed a human less than they should get as a growing child, then you will stunt their growth. If a person should be eating 3 meals a day, and you only fed them once a day, or every other day, I'm sure you could stunt their growth until they didn't reach their full potential.

The only way you can get your snake to not grow like it should normally, is to not feed it enough to maintain healthy growth, which is stunting it's growth, not managing. Managing would be making sure your snake doesn't get too fat, like feeding an adult ball python a large rat every single day. That could potentially make a fat snake. But a large rat every week to 10 days, would allow for a healthy weight and normal growth rate.

Like hatchling BP's/retics can be fed every 3 days without becoming fat and still grow at a normal pace. They can also be fed every 5 and 7 days while still growing at a normal pace and not becoming fat.
Ok you obviously did not look back at my post before typing any of this like I asked you to do. Im not trying to argue with you but you keep making points that have nothing to do with anything im talking about and trying to argue with someone who isnt arguing back......

I used the word weight to make another analogy. Im sorry you seem to not understand any of them so I will stop making simple analogies.. I was explaining what the word "managing" meant. The first thing I thought of was people always talking about managing thier weight so I figured that would be easy to understand but obviously you tried to apply it to something else and overthought it.

And again I dont understand why you keep explaining what starving a snake is. I understand the difference in starvation and eating healthy. But you continuously talk about starving a snake which I make no meantion of (except for saying that I am NOT talking about starvation). So please stop meantioning starvation.

The ONLY thing I am saying about feeding a snake is that I am going to feed it a HEALTHY amount and not OVERFEED like a large % of retic and burm owners do. I didnt say I was going to stunt growth, i didnt say I was going to underfeed, and i didnt say I wanted a small Retic! You are arguing with nobody because none of the "points" you are making pertain to anything I am saying.