How often should a one year old 4 foot long retic eat

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Originally Posted by MesoCorney

Why not feed the snake more reasonable portions every week? There is no reason to push the animal to it's limits. He is causing the animal undue stress. Who knows if this behavior would cause the animal an early death, but why risk it?

Who knows why? Sometimes that's all the person has available. There could be a dozen reasons why.

Originally Posted by MesoCorney

He was overfeeding the snake no matter how you look at it. I don't think he would have taken your advice to feed less often just as he refused to take any advice in the rest of his silly threads. Through out all his posts the only thing I learned about is that he treats the animal as a toy and not a living being that needs to be respected.

No, he wasn't. He asked a question. Sure he said he gave a 2.5 ft ball python a jumbo, but that doesn't mean he's going to feed jumbos to a 4 ft retic weekly. He said in post 49 he would feed jumbos every other week, which is exactly what I recommended.

Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

It's already been expressed that this is less of an issue for the retic, but the boa and ball python? Feeding a jumbo to a ball, and feeding the boa until it is obviously overweight...these need to change if he cares about his animals.

I don't have a lot of experience with boas and balls which is why I only talked about the retic. Also, it's in the giants section. That said, It's hard to judge the size of the rabbit and the boa from that one picture. If it's a 10lb boa and a 2 lb rabbit then it's fine. Rabbits are shaped funny and the bodies kind of bunch up, but then stretch out and look really thin. I need to set some food out to thaw so if I remember I'll take two pictures to demonstrate.

Originally Posted by Albert Clark

You don't need experience with a animal to see that this prey item is insurmountably larger than what the animal should be eating at a sitting. Stevie Wonder could see that. Its unhealthy and unnecessary!

No, it's not unhealthy for the retic. Unnecessary? Sure, but that doesn't make it harmful to the snake. If it was insurmountably larger then the animal wouldn't be able to eat it.

Insurmountable; adjective: too great to be overcome.

Originally Posted by sirtalis

Heck, the only experience I have with boas is that I held one, once.... but that food item looked massive, for both snakes.

It was big, but that's not a reason not to feed it to the snake.

Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

Both snakes look obese. You can see the fat deposits building up near the retics tail.

Just saw this post. That's not fat deposits, that's poop, the snake is going to leave a stinky brown and/or white present.