Help Me With My Cornsnake Please

[Bellabob]

Shes about 5 months old, I've ran out of pinkies, and I forgot to get more when I was out today. She hasen't eaten in nearly 2 weeks. She needs to eat. I have some fuzzies but they seem just a touch too big for her. Could I maybe cut one in half and feed her each half one at a time?

Thanks!

[grits]

Have a pic of her and the fuzzie? She might be able to eat it. My son has a 5 month king and the breeder had him on fuzzies already.

[Blue Apple Herps]

If the fuzzy is less than ~1.5x the widest part of her body she'll be fine. Can you pick some up at a local pet shop or something?

Two weeks w/o food isn't hurting her. Another two weeks won't hurt her either. I wouldn't recommend to do this on a regular basis, but if its another week or so before you get food, I'd just wait.

You definitely don't want to feed her something too big, and cutting up fuzzies is going to be a huge nasty mess.

[wstphal]

If they are frozen fuzzies, cutting them and THEN thawing is not that messy, I've done it and it wasn't gruesome and the snakes (all well acclimated to f/t) were fine with the meals. Corn snakes can eat quite a big prey item so if a fuzzy isn't bigger around than 1 1/2 times her largest diameter, she can manage the whole thing. I'd look at her next to the smallest fuzzy you have; I bet it's fine.