Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
Don't beat yourself up over it. You're certainly not the first or last person whose been lead astray by your typical uneducated pet store employee and their sadly typical underfeeding practises.

Just wait till the next feeding and go up in size. Not a massive jump, just a nice recently weaned young adult mouse. No need to overstress your young snake. See how it goes on that then offer it another one 7 days later and so forth.

Remember when you prey shop to pick a nice mouse (frozen or live) that is well fleshed in it's body, clean and healthy. It's your snake's only source of nutrition to build it's growth and health on so you should always consider prey quality a very important part of snake keeping.
That is a really good idea. I'm now going to look for the mouse that seems most active and healthy. So my lil baby can get all the nutrition he can get.