if your corn snake is over weight i gave my 2 year old 2 small mice but on monday gave him to medium mice an i will do that every monday is that to much?? Thanks for any advise
when hes relaxed can you see the skin between his scales? if you can then hes overweight
i think two medium mice every week is slightly too much, i think you would be ok with 1 large one every 7days
I think i can see like a whitish look between his scales so i might put him down to the one medium mouse a week then... i just always thought if he is having 2 he will be full enough to not want to bite me lol
no not yet to be honest i havent got great scales but how would i get him to sit still lol
I know you managed to weigh him but an accurate way is to weigh a shoe box. Put him in it and weigh it. Then subtract weight of box.
A corn is an opportunist feeder, in the wild they would eat and eat as much as they can cos they wouldnt know when their next meal was coming...so it is up to us to regulate their food cos we know we will be feeding them in a few days time even if they dont!
As HannahB says, he shouldnt bite you unless you annoy him or have mouse scent on your hands, so please dont feel you have to keep him stuffed so he wont feed on you!
lol thank you for your replies. Told him hes only having one mouse from now on lol thank you for the advise. when i weighed him i put a teatowel in the took it back to nought then wrapped him in that and it worked a treat
How do you know........
Posted - 18/11/2009 : 19:56:24
