a "Growing snake" will eat 10% to 13% of it's body weight in food per feeding. (I always split the difference and say 12%.)
So for example, if the snake weighs 20 grams, you'd offer a pinky that weighs about 2.4 grams (or 2 pinkies that total that). If your snake weighs 60 grams, (as you stated your's does right now) you'd offer a mouse weighing about 7.2 grams. Some people might call this a large fuzzy, or hopper, different people have different names, that's why I prefer to go by weight. Who cares what it's called anyway, right?
You can follow this feeding plan up to the time your snake is about 350 grams. At that point, your snake would be considered an adult, and you would stop increasing the size of the mice and just continue feeding a 30 to 40 gram mouse for the rest of the snake's life.
As the snake gets older its growth rate will slow, and the snake can get fat if you keep feeding bigger and bigger mice.
Also, as babies, most people feed on a 5 day schedule, and then a weekly schedule as an adolescent and finally a 14 to 21 day schedule as an adult.
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