Quote Originally Posted by tuper
(very small because of a paranoid hubby who thinks the snake can't 'handle' anything any bigger.)
Sorry to steal your thunder... but smaller meals are (IMO) better for them anyway. I'm not saying an adult should eat a pinky rat, but they never "need" anything more than small rats (50-70g range) even though they could "handle" a medium/large one as they mature.

Smaller meals help keep them on a "regular" schedule of eating. The smaller the meal, the faster it's digested and the more they'll WANT to eat. There's nothing more frustrating than having your snake on a 3 month fast because it got too full.

Tell Mr. Paranoid hubby that he's right about the smaller meals, and then hand him a beer, and calmly explain to him that if he wants you to feed chicken eggs to your BP, then you'll make him a scrambled rat burrito for dinner.