Quote Originally Posted by thejennabird View Post
Hello and welcome to the club!
It depends on the size of the meal and the age of the snake. If he's indeed a baby, common advice is 10-15% of the body weight every 3-5 days. Since you don't know the weight, go with the second most common advice: food that is just slightly wider than the widest part of your snake.

You say your snake is on African Soft Furs. Is this something your "feeder guy" breeds and can give you regularly on discount? Most people go with normal rats because ASFs are expensive or hard to find. But if ASFs are gonna work for you long-term, then feed whatever works!


Sweet! What sort of wood are you using? You probably don't need the advice, but it's worth mentioning that many woods don't do well under high humidity conditions. But people use melamine for all sorts of snazzy BP enclosures, so if you're using that, post pics when you're done!

Def post some pics of your new guy and his home as soon as he's settled in!

I do have a scale, so could weigh him if needed, I just didn't want to stress him too much while he settles in . Thank you for the advice.

I buy the ASF in bulk for my monitors so always have a stockpile. I've heard they can be picky eaters- can offering different colors/ breeds of food while young help them grow up to be 'less picky'?

Was planning to go with a bioactive setup as the adult build so will probably build it similar to the monitor and ameiva enclosures. I'm considering building a 4 (or 5) x 2 x 5 foot and splitting it between the ameivas and python (python on top).