Thanks guys for the civil responses. You guys are always good about this stuff.
Coming from BP land I am used to the guidelines being just that: Guidelines.
When I first researched this years ago. It was like this:
Baby once a week
Yearling every 10 days or so.
2 yrs plus every 2-4 weeks depending on prey size.
All those the "appropriately sized food." I had always understood appropriately sized food as food that doesn't cause such a big bulge that they might throw it up.
I went from 1 mouse to 3-4 mice at once to small rats. Was on small rats for a long time every couple weeks. I remember actually being concerned because she was as big as pics I'd seen online of similarly aged boas. I was assured that she was fine and keep doing what I was doing. So as she got bigger I upped the size to match. She's on what rodent pro calls extra large right now. Looks like as appetizer. She's big enough to eat a rabbit for sure but I can't bring myself to do it yet since I have a pet rabbit. And that would just be....weird.
So I started reading where some folks you didn't have access or couldn't afford rabbits just fed them smaller meals more often. As long as the keeps their rectangle shape they should be fine. And that made perfect sense to me since I come from BP land and that's a perfectly acceptable thing to do there.
So that's what I have done the past couple months since reading about it and seeing Jordan's videos.
I might get that book you mentioned later. But at $60 I can't swing that right now. Seems worth it based off the reviews on Amazon.
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