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12-11-11, 02:11 PM
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When do I move my babies to bigger food?
Hi all. My 2 baby corns are about 6 months old now. They've been on pinkies and been doing good with them. Right now it takes them about 5 minutes from strike to when the tail disappears. I'm wondering when I should move them to something bigger. What would be their next step up? Rat hoppers or fuzzy mice?
They're about 5/8" across (or about 1cm) at their middle.
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12-11-11, 02:23 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
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Hi all. My 2 baby corns are about 6 months old now. They've been on pinkies and been doing good with them. Right now it takes them about 5 minutes from strike to when the tail disappears. I'm wondering when I should move them to something bigger. What would be their next step up? Rat hoppers or fuzzy mice?
They're about 5/8" across (or about 1cm) at their middle.
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Im thinking fuzzy mice would be the next step if theyre on pinky mice now. Try that and see how they do.
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12-11-11, 04:55 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
The general rule of thumb is that when the prey item no longer leaves a sizable lump in the snake it is time to move up.
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12-11-11, 09:19 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
or the munson plan says 23/24 grams I think. But I'm running off of memory here.
My guy is 8 months and still eats pinkies, he's just on large pinkies where he was started at smalls. but he's at about 15/16 grams and 20" long right now.
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12-11-11, 09:26 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
If the pinkies are no longer leaving a lump, you can move up a size. The next food size up should be no bigger than ~1.5 times the girth of the snake.
PS: You should give us updated pics of them! 
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12-11-11, 09:50 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
I gave them fuzzies tonight. the fuzzys were about the same girth as the snakes. they did well with them. I'll take some new pics in a couple of days to post.
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12-11-11, 09:51 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
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I gave them fuzzies tonight. the fuzzys were about the same girth as the snakes. they did well with them. I'll take some new pics in a couple of days to post.
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That's awesome! All good news
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12-12-11, 12:03 AM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
Good to hear!
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12-12-11, 06:48 AM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
If the prey is the same girth as the snake i would give them something a bit bigger, all my corns eat 1.5 to 2 times their girth with no issues at all.
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12-17-11, 04:20 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
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The general rule of thumb is that when the prey item no longer leaves a sizable lump in the snake it is time to move up.
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Ditto that! F/t fuzzy mice!
Although "rule of thumb" is a bad cliche.... wife beeting stick lol
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12-18-11, 03:42 AM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
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Ditto that! F/t fuzzy mice!
Although "rule of thumb" is a bad cliche.... wife beeting stick lol
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lol Thankfully "Rule of Thumb" is no longer legal! My other favorite is "Mind your P's & Q's"
(Mind your Pints and Quarts [beer])
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12-19-11, 08:16 PM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
ooo what are P's and Q's??
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12-20-11, 07:06 AM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
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ooo what are P's and Q's??
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In old England the pubs served their beer and ale in pints and quarts. As there was no legal limit or anything like that, the men in the pubs often got rowdy, belligerent, or started fights. The 'bar tender' would often have to shout over the chaos, "SIT DOWN! MIND YOUR PINTS AND QUARTS AND BE QUIET!" or something along those lines. Minding the pints and quarts meant don't slosh them around and spill them. This came down to us as a reprimand for rowdy behavior: Mind your P's and Q's.
this relates back to the age of little 12 year olds become printing apprentices. So when they used to set up the letters on the press it would be very hard to indentify the p's from the q's. That's were the quote mind your p's and q's came from. Now what it means is that you should not worry about knowing the difference between p's and q's.So just mind your buisness
copied from Wiki...
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12-20-11, 09:58 AM
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Re: When do I move my babies to bigger food?
I agree that you can feed a prey item up to 1.5 times the snakes girth at it's largest part. Another way to look at it is if the lump is not visible in 24 - 48 hours you can move up to the next size. Pinkies do not really provide the best nutrition so you should see faster growth now that you are moving up in prey size.
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