Retic food-weight charts?

[Sauzo]

With such high mainland percentages, I wouldn't be surprised if you two got some decent-sized retics. I have always been under the impression anything less than 70-75% SD blood (whichever is the more "correct" percentage) will result in normal-sized retics, or close to it.

Of course, don't hold back food on a retic destroying its face. haha If they will tolerate it, feeding less is always better, but having pushing retic is a lot worse.

I do sort of keep my snakes on a schedule, but I also don't stick to it religiously. I don't generally get upset if they're 1-3 weeks late, or even more for a big adult boa constrictor. Prey sizes will also vary in my growing snakes, as I will test to see if they're ready to move up to the next prey size. If the bulge is too large for my liking, I step them back down for awhile longer. Or if for whatever reason they seem to be packing on too much weight, or not enough, I will also adjust accordingly. As you say, keep your individual in mind.



Also Sauzo, definitely see about stepping up in rat size or the occasional GP, I think I started River on colossals around the 7.5' mark, so I'm sure he's close to needing a prey size increase.


I didn't think much about the weight, River came to me at 6 months and 350 grams, so I figured an SD wouldn't be too far off of that. :/ Though to be fair, at the time she was being severely underfed. Breeder said she was getting a mouse fuzzy​ every 2 weeks. >.>

Yeah, i tried holding back just to see what the limit was and yeah, it didnt go as planned lol. Not doing that again but at least now i know what Caesar's limit is haha.

I've been checking weights and stuff to compare guinea pigs to rats. Caesar's rats are jumbos which seem to average about 300g so I'm going to shoot for someting that weighs a smidge more and see how he handles it as i imagine GPs are more 'meaty'. I was also told to try small rabbits as we all know they are much more meaty and should allow me to stretch his feeding out.

I was told since he eats jumbo rats with ease and they leave a noticeable lump but nothing substantial, to try either an XL or 2XL guinea pig for Caesar.

And yeah, i figured Caesar wasnt going to be tiny as an adult. I figured about 10'. I just didnt want a 16' or 18' snake. And honestly i dont mind if Caesar gets a little bigger as his personality is really laid back and he is really easy to deal with. I just boop his head with a twisted paper towel and he lays down right where he is and doesnt move. It's like he's trained lol. I would rather have to deal with him being a little bigger but happy than smaller and miserable from having food withheld. Of course i also dont want him to become a giant sausage with a head lol.

I just hope I don't have to upsize his cage to an 8x3 as Ali told me that size is more of a challenge to move alone. The 6x3 were fairly easy to move by myself. The only plus if I do need to upsize is that I'll have a 6x3 ready for Gina lol.