hooray for weigh day!

[dakski]

thanks for asking.

just offering too small of prey for so long, assuming it was appropriate. he was on large mice from the pet store, but he was pacing his enclosure so much i started offering 2 large mice per feeding. i (incorrectly) assumed this would be enough; it's double what he was eating before! math!!!! i didn't weigh him for a while (because, again, assumptions) and only when i realized he hadn't shed in a long time did i weigh him; he had lost 50g. so against the forum's advice, i've been giving a weaned rat/7 days to help him get some weight back on. he shed out last week, which was a relief to me. i'm putting in an order to Perfect Prey within the next few weeks and will be getting ex-breeder mice for him, which are ~20g more per mouse than what i was feeding. until then, his next feedings will alternate between 2 large mice and one weaned rat, but i'll be offering rats to him more sparingly now that he's put a bit of weight back on and go back to mainly offering mice.

Wow, ok. Most people stick to the Munson Plan, as corns will eat anything and everything and gain too much weight if overfed.

Seems like your guy did need more if he was losing weight like that.

Two thoughts though.

1. Have you checked for parasites? That seems like an awful lot of food for a corn his size.

2. If the answer to #1 is that he's clean; if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Below is the munson chart, in case you haven't seen it.

Good luck and keep us in the loop!