Quote Originally Posted by LLLReptile View Post
I feed babies once a week, sometimes more if they seem to need it, and more if all I have on hand are relatively small prey items.

My adults eat every 10 to 14 days, sometimes more often if the prey items are small, definitely on the further end if the prey items are large. Usually it's every 10 days, and my adult snakes are fed medium rats at the largest. Lately it's been easier to get large rats, so I offer those every 14 days instead.
consider keeping the intervals to a minimum of 5 days for young ones/subadults, and 7 days for an adult. dont feed more often just because food on hand is smaller.... in that case, just give a second food item 20 minutes later, maybe even a third.

people have tried out what works better, going from a 7-day cycle to a 3-4 day cycle, or sticking to the 7 day cycle and bumping up the food size. and with the same amount of food, results appear to be better if you stick to the 7 day cycle. In the experiments the snakes that are on the 7 day regiment grow faster than the ones fed more often, with exactly the same amount of food overall.

with large food items and adults, going to 10 or 14 days should be fine if you dont want to breed.