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Originally Posted by SnakeyJay
Lmao this male of mine has been dropping plugs since he was 3.. he's now 8 pushing 9 yrs old... yeah I totally get why you mean n why you do it, I just think some people would read what you put and use it as justification to underfeed to keep them small...
Not that your doin that at all, I've just seen it happen many times with idiots that own retics and boas but don't want the size.  |
Yeah he didn't start dropping plugs until the winter before last. So just over 3 years old.
I try to make it very clear it's not underfeeding but conservative feeding. As long as they didn't "extend" a winter fast or did "extra fasts," or something along those lines, it shouldn't result in an underfed snake. Feeding in the way I do shouldn't keep a snake smaller, although they'll take longer to get big, they'll be healthier and get just as long.
I've argued with people on here about maintenance feeding their bigger snakes before, so I definitely agree that they shouldn't get an animal if its potential size is too much.
We gotta try not to be an extreme on either end, either. Too much food, and they die young from obesity, too little food and they slowly starve to death. It's also hard to draw that line, because we don't completely understand snakes' metabolisms yet. Snakes that were fed what could be considered "conservative" diets end up dying from obesity even though they may not have outwardly shown it, so I just tend to err on more conservative side than most.
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