I have to disagree that a prey item leaving a lump of some size in the animal is a bad thing. I will admit most of my snake experience is pythons, but I also keep a number of colubrids and with them you don't want large lumps after a feeding. The moto I go by with them and now my boas is for the prey item to leave a noticeable but not overly large lump. In my opinion if you're feeding a prey item that doesn't leave a lump at all then it's almost like underfeeding. Now there are exceptions to this rule, such as males that aren't being bred or fat snakes, but for the most part the prey item should leave a bit of a lump in the animal. This is again one of those topics that's going to be colored by personal opinions, and everyone has one, in the end if you feel like you want to move him up to mediums do it. Feed him mediums a couple times see how he reacts and go from there. My new hypo salmon boy is about 5ish foot long and is eating FT large rats. They aren't huge larges, but they are good sized and the lump they leave is just barely noticeable so if you ask me that's fine.
Like a couple others have said, snakes are always hungry and will just keep eating if given the chance. They are opportunistic ambush predators and they go through long periods in the wild where they don't eat. believe me when I say that there are some snakes, like the giant pythons that are bottomless pits where food just disappears.
Again though like I said this is a lot of opinion as long as your snake is happy and healthy that's all that really matters. And I'm sure everyone on here will agree with me on thaton a side not, beautiful boy you have there.
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