I'm still new here so take what I say for what it's worth, I have two females that are about 12 months and the other 14 months. They came from different breeders and they never skip a meal since I've had them. The 12 month old is much smaller 350 grams, and the 14 month old is 750 grams. The only difference was the breeder of the smaller one was doing weekly under sized meals verses the breeder of the bigger one was already on rats 10-15% of snakes body weight.