We've just switched our snakes over from multiple adult mice to rat weans as of last week (so this would be week #2 of the new feeding program). The weans are about 4 to 4.5 inches in length (not counting their tails).

Kyna, the 23 month old female, took 2 and was content. Rionach, the 7 month old female, who currently weighs 450 grams and is about 28 inches long took one good sized wean but then searched and searched her enclosure for over half an hour, appearing to look for another one.

My question is this, the rat wean she took appeared to be the right size for her so why is she continuing to search so hard for another one? Is she just used to taking two prey items? When she was on 2 adult mice, she would sometimes look around a bit after the second one but fairly quickly settle down. Last night she was very aggressively (almost hyper) trying to find another thing to eat - definitely a different post feeding response than we've ever seen in this snake and not the response we saw last week after she took her first and single rat wean.

Should I have offered her another? I don't want to overfeed her and trigger a regurge or a fast but neither do I want to deny a hungry snake food.

Any ideas folks?


~~Jo~~