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    Re: Too Much Appetite??

    In my opinion, no such thing as wanting too much food. The only issue is if they are offered too much food to be healthy.

    I had a banana male I got as a 3 month old last year do exactly that with wanting food way early, or any time. He would and often still does it any day of the week. Whether that is 2 days after eating, the day before eating, the morning after he was fed, and even 30 minutes after eating where he went to hide and digest, then popped out when I walked by with someone else's meal. Needless to say, he is still a fantastic eater at 1.5 years old and over 1,000g. I think he has only refused once in December after he hit 1,000g, we had a cold snap, and he was in shed simultaneously; thought he might try fasting, but grabbed food next feeding without issue.

    I am guessing he is just really wired in to the ambush predator instinct, I think. Never pass up a meal, it may be your last for a while and all that. I always just fed him appropriately sized prey weekly and he swapped from the breeder feeding live to his first meal with me as F/T without issue and from mice to rats a few weeks later.

    He's also my only BP that will strike a room temp rat; found that out when I opened the tub to scent it better as I heated the rat with a hair dryer near it and he lunged out and almost got me. I put the rat between us to stop a second try for my hand and he took a few seconds to verify it was food and snagged it at about 75 degrees and wet.

    I've got another hatchling this year that is shaping up to be a similarly enthusiastic feeder; ironically another male.

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