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Also, I like going off of weights because I’ve always been bad at estimating by visuals. When my hognose was a baby I thought there was no way she could eat a fuzzy but my brother convinced me to try and once she was actually eating it I realized even the fuzzies were too small. And I had thought they were way too big.
The guy at my local herp store taught me a good trick for this - wrap your hand around the thickest part of the snake, or if it's to thick you take a strip of paper and mark it. Then he has people bring the paper strip into the store and drop frozen rats through the loop - the biggest rat that can fall through without touching the sides of the loop is the right size, no guesstimating. When I got my first BP he was eating small rats and when I saw them I was like "there's no way that's going to fit" but once he showed me how it would fit through my hand when I held it at the size of the snake it made more sense.