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Ready for fuzzies?

-blaine-

-blaine-

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My corn snake has eaten two pinkies a meal now for the last three times. I still have five left so she will have two meals, with two pinkies. After these last two meals, would she be ready for one fuzzy? I picked up a six pack of them today at Petco due to some urge, maybe wishful thinking!

She is about 20inches. Two pinkies leave a swollen belly, but no large bumps like they used too. She looks back to normal 36-48 hours after shes eaten and is climbing around like before.

Any insight is greatly appreciated!
 
Give her something that's between 1 and 1.5 times her thickest point. It should leave a lump or it's too small (unless it's multiple smaller items).
 
It's normal to be worried over bumping up prey sizes, and working out the right size can be daunting. If you have a digital scale that can weigh in grams, try seeing if the 2 pinks are the same as 1 fuzzy. I know I used to obsessively sort my pinky/large pinky/fuzzy orders and bag them up accordingly, before it got easier to just size them up by eye because I had more idea of what size feed would fit into which size baby snake!
 
check in the pk and find the smallest fuzzy. The fuzzies I had varied a lot. But ya, don't go over 1-1/2 of her thickest part of her body.
 
Blaine, do you have a digital kitchen scale? One of those will work just fine for weighing your snake.
 
If you're familiar with the Munson Feeding Plan (you can find it easily in a search), you can use that to figure out how much to feed by weight. Keeping in mind that the girth of the food has to be appropriate, too-- no more than 1.5 times the snake's largest diameter. If you're weighing your snake, the Munson plan will tell you how big of a meal, in grams, is appropriate. Also, you can "mix and match" mouse sizes to get the right sized meal. Two "pinkies" not quite enough? Try one fuzzy and one pinky, for example. That's what I like to do, anyway.

The terms "pinky", "fuzzy", "hopper" etc. are a bit arbitrary :)
 
JennaJ said:
If you're familiar with the Munson Feeding Plan (you can find it easily in a search), you can use that to figure out how much to feed by weight. Keeping in mind that the girth of the food has to be appropriate, too-- no more than 1.5 times the snake's largest diameter. If you're weighing your snake, the Munson plan will tell you how big of a meal, in grams, is appropriate. Also, you can "mix and match" mouse sizes to get the right sized meal. Two "pinkies" not quite enough? Try one fuzzy and one pinky, for example. That's what I like to do, anyway.

The terms "pinky", "fuzzy", "hopper" etc. are a bit arbitrary :)
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Yea i have been "loosely" following those guidelines. I'd venture to guess that the Munson Plan is more of a rough idea of appropriate feedings, or atleast this is what i seem to find scattered across the web.

I appreciate everyone taking the time to give me advice, it will all be considered! I'll feed her two pinkies a couple more times and see if she's ready for a smaller fuzzy!
 
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