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Following Munson's Plan But...

bataco

bataco

Daniel
I just fed my snake with one pinkie, he waits 15g but I'm not sure if that's correct, the point is I gave him 1 pinkie on a napkin so the wet pinkie left his smell on the napkin... when the little guy finished his meal he just stood on the napkin like smelling another pinkie and looking for more, he didn't went to hide until I took the napkin off... should I start giving him 2 pinkies?
 
The Munson Plan is really only a guideline. A lot of people (even Dean himself, I believe) deviate from it depending on the individual corn. Your snake is only one gram off anyways, and it's possible that he'll make the mark with this latest feeding. I would say that if you think he's ready, go ahead and give it a try to see how goes.
 
After snakes eat, they stay in "feeding mode" for a while- 10-30 minuts or so. In the wild, if a snake came upon a nest of mice, he would eat the whole thing. But then he might not eat for weeks.

My hatchling Jasper weighs 13g. He was eating small pinks just fine. He had one a little larger than before, maybe two grams? and regurged it. I'd be careful.
 
I agree with Nanci, you need to be careful not to go too fast. Weigh your pinkies. If your talking new born 1 gram pinkies, a 15 gram snake could handle two. If your talking 3 gram or bigger, you better stick with one for a while. Feeding too big a meal or another meal before the first one has digested, is a sure fire plan for regurge.
 
Oh it's good you tell me that... I feel that he's ok with one pinkie, I'll wait a month and I'll weight my pinkies, I think they're 1 gram but thx a lot
 
The way I do it is to feed small pinkies until I can no longer see a lump. The feed large pinks until no lump. Then I feed two pinks for a month or so, then bump it up to fuzzies, until no lump, then hoppers until no lump etc etc. I max them out at jumbo mice. Even if there is no lump they still only get a single jumbo mouse.

This has worked great for me.

Edited to ad that at no point should the mouse be greater than 1.5x the width of the snake at its widest point.
 
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bataco said:
Oh it's good you tell me that... I feel that he's ok with one pinkie, I'll wait a month and I'll weight my pinkies, I think they're 1 gram but thx a lot
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Very few pinkies are only 1 gram. Mine are all at least 1.5g at birth. Your scale must round down =) 1 gram pinkies would be VERY small.
 
blueapplepaste said:
The way I do it is to feed small pinkies until I can no longer see a lump. The feed large pinks until no lump. Then I feed two pinks for a month or so, then bump it up to fuzzies, until no lump, then hoppers until no lump etc etc. I max them out at jumbo mice. Even if there is no lump they still only get a single jumbo mouse.

This has worked great for me.
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This would work great for anyone, Matt. Your system is as valuable, if not more so, than "The Plan" since it doesn't require the purchase of expensive, accurate scales, which aren't an essential expense anyway. Somehow add the disclaimer that prey items must not exceed 1.5x the max girth of the snake, and "The B.A.P. Plan" should be the one sought after by novice keepers.
 
Roy Munson said:
This would work great for anyone, Matt. Your system is as valuable, if not more so, than "The Plan" since it doesn't require the purchase of expensive, accurate scales, which aren't an essential expense anyway. Somehow add the disclaimer that prey items must not exceed 1.5x the max girth of the snake, and "The B.A.P. Plan" should be the one sought after by novice keepers.
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Excellent point Dean about the 1.5x max. I'll edit my post to reflect that. The only thing with the "B.A.P. Plan" is that growth definitely is not as fast as on the Munson plan. But for me, that's not a problem, though I know others want to get theirs up to weight quickly. Either way, options are a good thing.
 
Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that my juvi king (since I know this is about a king not a corn) is not able to be up to par with the munson plan, he just doesn't seem to be able to swallow things as large as my corns can.
 
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