Newbie moments

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OK, I'm going to have a newbie moment here... You mentioned in your thread "feeding pinkies", and it seems you're saying everyone should know thats a bad idea? So... I'm open to a learning moment; is there something wrong with feeding snakes pinkies? I just recently got two young corn snakes and I was pretty excited when they both took their F/T pinkies like champs. If thats wrong, what is the alternative?

-C.

I'm pretty sure Craig was referring to feeding baby ball pythons with pinkies, since that is protocol at some/many of the Petsmart/Petco stores and what is often told to buyers there. Ball pythons should be started with hopper mice, not pinkies, since they are much larger as babies and typically eat small adult mice after the first few meals. (Hatch weights are somewhere around 40-70g I think? Something like that.)

Pinkies are definitely needed for baby corn snakes as they're too small for anything larger for a while. Congrats on getting yours to eat!

Dianne, you just beat me!

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