Feeder Quantity/Size Question

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Originally Posted by Donnie

Don't worry about him cruising around, that's what carpets do if they are hungry or not. If your worried about sticking your hand in and getting bit due to a feeding responce you can always tap train him to help avoid it.

Well, he's stopped moving now and just hanging out on the plants! Usually he will move around just a little a few times a day, but he really seemed like he wanted to get out last night and I hadn't seen him like that before. I'm not that worried anymore - he'll survive eating a smaller than recommended meal for one feeding! I just found his behavior very curious.

I'm actually not that concerned about getting bit, either, to be honest. Later last night I realized that some water spilled onto the paper towel lining his enclosure... I reached in to remove his hides and coax him into another tub while I switched out the paper towel. Snake didn't care, just tried to get out and climb my arms. He's relatively non-nippy for a carpet, which I like very much and hope will continue to be the case with age and more handling.

Originally Posted by Starbuck

By that logic think of it this way: if you feed him in enclosure, he will ALWAYS know that being taken out means no food.... no food= no chainsaw ;-)

Oh, that's an excellent way to explain it! Thanks for dumbing it down for me, I needed it LOL

Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

Op you can feed him small meals weekly, or big meals bi to tri weekly.

Or you can vary his schedule(which I will start to do for my snakes). Give him a small meal frequently for a few weeks, and then give him big meals infrequently for a few weeks.

With baby snakes, would it be okay to feed bi/tri-weekly? I keep hearing to feed every 5-7 days but at the breeder's they were indeed eating just twice a week. Also, what counts as a big meal in that case? If I'll be switching over to rats, should I first go to fuzzies or directly to pups/large fuzzies if I'm feeding bi-weekly?

I've definitely heard a lot of different information regarding what size and how frequently to feed jungles; really appreciate the help you're giving me!

Originally Posted by Donnie

Ratpups over here are the smallest rats you can get, newborns.

That had me wondering, so I checked the place where I buy my frozen feeders and their chart for rats is

Rats - Pink to Lg Fuzzy (Live & Frozen)
Rats - Hopper to Med (Live & Frozen)
Rats - Lg (Live & Frozen)
Rats - Jmb (Live & Frozen)