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Feeding Question

AMO1975

New member
Hi all. I posted a couple of weeks ago about our first corn snake we bought dying. We disinfected and went over our setup checking temps for week straight and bought a new snow corn. She's 8 months old. The second day we had her her eyes went blue. A few days later she shed. The shed went fine. Once her eyes cleared we soaked her and she shed all in one piece a few hours later while we watched. After she ate two pinkies right away. Today is feeding day again and she just ate two more like there was nothing to it. There is no noticeable bulge and she's still searching like she's hungry. I don't think I can feed her anything larger than a large pinky. Does anyone ever offer a third? Or should I wait less than 7 days before offering her food again? Next time we go to the pet store we buy the pinkies at I'll ask to look at the peach fuzz mice and see if they're too large. The large pinky mice are a little bit larger than she is around so I'm afraid to go too much larger. I'm just worried two pinky's isn't enough so thought I'd ask. And thanks for all the advice everyone gave me after our first snake died. It was so upsetting and it was really helpful getting advice here. I'm so glad we bought another snake! :)
 
A good rule of thumb is to feed no mouse that is more than 1.5 the snakes largest body diameter. If you think she's still hungry, you could try feeding every 4-5 days. Babies need more food than adults, who you usually feed every 7 days. Also keep in mind that several small mice are much easier to digest than one large mouse. Good luck.
 
If there's no noticeable lump in her belly then it should be fine to offer a third. My young snakes are on three pinkies at the moment and they handle it fine.
 
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