Python Reticulatus Wallace Progression!

[CloudtheBoa]

That's what made me think I was underfeeding since Levi is a mainland. He can easily take 2 100+ gram rats. I just don't know when it would be considered power feeding with these guys so I've been giving him one. Never tried a large rat but I might up his feeding and see how he does. I'd just hate to take some years off my favorite snakes life :o

If he's taking 2 100 gram rats just bump him to larges. Even though the rats are equal in weight to a mid-sized large rat, a single large will be less food than 2 100 gram rats. River grew 1.5' in about 3 weeks eating 2 small rats once every 2 weeks and I haven't seen growth like that before or since that incident, even when she's eating a single rat/rabbit that leaves a bulge twice as large. I've noticed similar increased growth in my other snakes (not at the same level of course), so nowadays I just avoid feeding multiples completely.

As long as he isn't as hellbent on food as Caesar is, it shouldn't hurt to feed them a little less so long as you're ready to wait a little longer for him to get big


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