Quote Originally Posted by 67temp View Post
It's a corn thing when they are still looking for food as soon as the rat/mouse tail gets down their throat. In the first pic it looks like the food lump is to the right of her head and slightly above it. The second and third pics where you were trying to show her spine looks that way because of the bend in the snake and the way it is laying. Ideally you want the cross section of the snake while it is straight to resemble a slice of bread. They should be somewhat squared on the sides an bottom, the spine should be sunken down in the middle, and the two muscles that run down either side of the spine should be raised up.
Well, I fed her yesterday evening around 7 - so I hope the mouse isn't still visible lol. If I were to do a cross section I would say she is more triangular than bread shaped. Not as bad as she was a month ago, but her spine is still definitely higher than the apaxial muscles that are on either side. Maybe 1-2ish millimeters higher than the muscles - she had "loose" skin around she neck when I got her that has since tightened up.

As for prey size, should she be on something larger than 18-25g mice be better? Like rat pups, or two mice per feeding? She's 847g currently