Quote Originally Posted by steveboos View Post
well the 10-15 Percent rule is quite accurate and will give them healthy growth. Usually the size of prey if fine as long as it's not way too small or way too large, as long as they get it down easy, no worries.

It's not always easy getting perfectly sized prey for your snakes, so i usually just try and get 2 smaller prey or 1 perfectly sized one. Also your feeding schedule is perfect, just keep it up.

If it makes you feel any better i haven't been able to feed my larger snakes the right sized pretty due to a medium rat shortage. So i just feed 2 smalls.
Hey, thanks for the fast reply.

Anywhoo, I'm basically wanting to know because as much of stupidity as it sounds. I've never raised the hatchlings up. I got all my breeders as adults from good friends of mines. I just recently held back a 1.1 bumblebees for future projects as well as a very nice 1.0 enchi. Since I've never raised a snake from a hatchling, I want to get the best, healthiest, but yet quickest growth (againdepends on the snake I know) with out putting them endanger of obesity or power feeding. I didn't know if those using this method is how they got there snakes up to the 1000g mark after a year. Or if its just a consistant feeding schedule. Like most posts I've read it depends on the snake itself, yes. That's understandable as its the same therory in humans. However like I said I just want to see a sence of happiness from those hatchlings and see them thrive so in 2-4 years they'll make me even more joy from their future off-spring. Thanks again.