Feed

[NewbieNick]

I know the rule about feeding one prey item per week. Equal in diamater to the largest diamater on the snake. But im having a hard time judging this.

My snake Nyoka, is 106 grams. What is a good size to feed him? adult mice? hoppers? i cant find any rat pups or things near its size so mice will have to do untill he gets bigger

[llovelace]

What size are you feeding it now?

[NewbieNick]

Right now im feeding him one F/t adult Mouse (the Packedge says 19 grams) a week. and he wieghs 106 grams.

[starmom]

10-15% of the snake's body weight in prey is a general rule of thumb.
So, giving a 19g prey is a bit over 15% of the body weight but ought to be fine. I would not move up in prey size yet
Also, I feed snakes that weight every 5 days.