What size should she be eating?

[tirevy]

My '08 normal is about 155g and 32". She is about 2 3/4 inches in circumference around her thickest part. About 2 cm in diameter (about 1 inch almost). Should she be eating adult mice at this point or hoppers?

[bitsy]

What is she currently eating, how often, and does it leave a visible bulge in her after swallowing? Sounds like she's still a growing girl and maybe adult mice might be a bit big at the moment, but it rather depends on what she's used to eating.

[Nanci]

I would feed a snake that size a weanling mouse weighing about 15 grams-17 grams. I gradually increase the mouse size as the snake approaches 200 grams, and by the time they are 200 grams they are eating small adult mice of about 17-21 grams. When they are up over 250, then they get mice that are about 25 grams. I don't feed jumbo mice, 28 grams or bigger, to anything but the largest corns, that are eating bi-weekly.

Looking at that advice, it seems like the mouse weight is about 10% of the snake weight. That really only holds true for just this very narrow weight range of 150-250 gram corns.

[tirevy]

Thanks so much. She's currently eating 3 or 4 fuzzies at a time. The bulge doesn't last long!

[bitsy]

If you can get adult mice in different sizes, sounds like it would be fine to try a small or even medium mouse.

[tspuckler]

I feed them food that is as wide as the thickest part of the snake. It sounds like your snake could easily eat young adult (weaned) mice.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/tspuckler/eat1.jpg

[Lennycorn]

Thanks so much. She's currently eating 3 or 4 fuzzies at a time. The bulge doesn't last long!

This isn't really that good.

You're shooting for one food item per feeding. I can feed my adult five or six hopper and not have a bulge. Or one adult mouse.

[Skully23]

Try looking at this?

-When they're on single pinks (2-3g), I feed every 5-6 days. (Snake = 4-15g)
-Double pinks (3g x 2) every 5-6 days. (Snake = 16-23g)
-Small fuzzies (5-7g) every 6-7 days. (Snake = 24-30g)
-Regular fuzzies (7-9g) every 6-7 days (Snake = 30-50g)
-Hoppers (9-12g) every 6-7 days (Snake = 51-90g)
-Weaned (14-20g) every 7 days (Snake = 91-170g)
-Adult (20-30g) every 7-x days (Snake = 170+) See below.

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50106