Quote Originally Posted by C&H Exotic Morphs View Post


I have to completely disagree with you on this statement.
All of our animals get fed smaller meals on a weekly basis and it doesn't make any of them "jumpy" or always hungry. Besides a couple of animals in our collection that are always little jerks and don't like to be bothered at all, the rest of our collection is perfectly fine 99% of the time and aren't 'jumpy" or "sketchy" at all.
Now when it comes to feeding day all bets are off!
Because all snakes are the same and should be treated as such, and everyone's experiences are the same. I've had many snakes over many species that when fed larger less frequent meals, or even a couple larger meals thrown in are much calmer than if fed smaller meals more often. Sometimes, it works, no reason not to try it.

People will tell you; OP, that you are power feeding, over feeding- but this is beyond incorrect. Snakes would take larger prey and larger meals in the wild, and do not eat every 5-7 days in the wild. Nothing about what we do to these snakes is natural, while I don't agree that you should give it a large rat ever 5 days, varying prey size is more than acceptable.