Quote Originally Posted by bearhart
I'm less sure about how often to feed. Weeks are a human invention and so "once a week" is convenient for us. This makes me unsure about the schedule when he's checking every little corner in his cage on day 5.
if you feed a ball every week of the year, thats 52 mice/rats a year (or 104 if you feed two mice). that is alot more then a snake will eat in the wild in a year. so while weeks are convenient for us, feeding multiple times a week bumps the total amount of mice eaten in a year way up.

plus what Adam said