Quote Originally Posted by missi182 View Post
The 10-15% weight rule works for me just fine because the girth is also similar. My bp is 750 grams, his meals are 70-80 grams. Anything smaller and he just hangs out waiting for more food.

Don't forget, just because prey may weigh a certain amount, does not mean it will be a specific thickness. Many rat pups or small mice can be long and thin and weigh the same as a short and fat prey (this applies more to f/t than live)

Helena, I keep my frozen f/t in a mini fridge freezer sometimes and as long as the temperature in the freezer is set to full, it is the same as the bigger freezers I have.

Anyway, a few people have mentioned prey size - that is because what you were describing as a meal in the first post was basically a pinkie, which is not nearly enough for your bp. My male would climb his vines/plants trying to get out desperately when he was a few months old, so I bumped him up to rat pups and covered his tank better and he calmed down.
Everybody seems to think that my concern is the size of her food, but it isn't!!
I mentioned that that is the smallest I have fed her since I got her, everything else has been bigger. Unfortunately, that was the only thing the place I go to get her food had. I'm well aware of what size her food should be and that's exactly what I've been feeding her. It's just this one time that was different. My concern was why she wasn't constricting but now I know that the mouse was too small.