Size of mouse

[Matt.B]

I would ask Mark but I have been bothering him to much ;) soooooo I ask you. I just fed my snake (I prolly shouldnt have since it was fed on friday but I just HAD to see her eat) and the pink didnt even make a small bulge. Plus she took it down in about ten seconds. When should I start feeding two pinks or one fuzzy?
Thanks
Matt

[Derrick]

I moved mine from to fuzzies after 6-8 feedings.

[Tim_Cranwill]

Friday to Tuesday is 4 days, that is fine for a hatchling still on pinks... especially if they only take 10 seconds to go down! :D

I usually feed one pinkie for 10 meals or so, then two for a few more meals THEN I go to fuzzies. But I am a bit slower than some to make that jump. They can hadle it though. Just think of how big that first pinkie seemed. :)

[stevesemerko]

My 04' Pueblan (from the late great Ken Taylor) started taking fuzzies by the 3rd feeding (Ken's 04's were huge though). But if pinks are barely making a bulge I would try offering slightly bigger pinks (or 2 small ones) or a small fuzzy and if it makes a good bulge then I'd keep offering those fuzzies. JMO. Hope that helps.

*I know this is the Elaphe forum but I just used the pueblan as an example.

[Simon]

Just a simple rule of thumb~

They can take in a prey that is about 1.5 the times of the largest section of its body.

If a pinky doesn't even make a bludge try a fuzzy, I bet that it can even take down 2 fuzzies with no problem~~