Quote Originally Posted by steveboos View Post
Well i'll just tell you from personal expierience, as long as your hatchling is a good eater, you really wont have to worry about the food size, since msot of the time if you can't get a rat pup, you can always get an adult mouse. Or if you need a Rat pinkie, just go for a smaller adult mouse, about the same size.

I just sold a male Het Piebald that was 200 grams december of 2009 and was 1000 plus grams when i sold him a month ago in October, he just shot up in size and was my best eater.
I fed him every 4-7 days depending on avaialbility of rats, so he took them very easily.

You can feed every 4 days if you want, but not a real big difference between 4 and 5 days, so just more money and food over time.
Thanks again stevesboo.

I appreciate your help. I think I'm going to try feeding them 15 percent of their body weight and see what kind of lump/growth I get out of that. And then I guess this will help me further their quality of life since ill be monitoring weight and looking at them a little more. Hey thanks for helping me become a better snake keeper. Lol. Anyhow thanks again

P.s. I have everyone on FT so one large order from rodent pro and I'm good for a while on snake food. Lol. Anyhow one more question. If u fed a perfectly sized rat to ur snake that's a smidge bigger than the snakes girth for that "perfect lump", how does it compare tp feeding the prey item that's 10-15% of the body weight? Where I'm getting at is I'm hoping that by using this method I can start to just eye it better in comparison to rat size to snake size. Thanks