Quote Originally Posted by dbassa View Post
A good way to determine appropriate prey size is to weigh your snake and feed a mouse/rat that is between 10% and 15% of the snakes weight. Slightly larger or smaller is fine if that is what you have. I have used that for the last year for my ball and she seems to be doing well. Got her at 62g and at approx. 1 year was about 500g. Good steady growth.

Another way is to feed an item that is 1 to 1.5 the width of your snake at it's widest point. I like to weigh for my record keeping, but I think either way works.

One of my resources suggests heating any wood to be place in a viv be heated to 135 deg. f for 30 min.

Good luck and congrats!
Oh, the weight thing might help. I have a digital kitchen scale that should do the trick. I have always wondered about the width thing...is it prey that is 1-1.5 as LONG or as WIDE as the widest part of your snake??