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beyond_my_dreams

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i know there probably a lot of threads on this but i just got a corn snake and the man who sold it to me told me to feed her 3 pinkies every 5 days. he old gave me 6 pinkies. what shall i do after those 6 shall i move on to fluffs? she is about 45 cm long and about a cm thick
 
You should feed a prey item that is about 1.5 times the width of the snake. When I first got my '05 hatchlings, I fed them one pinkie mouse each. I would look at them after 24 hours, and then again after 48 hours (total from the feed time) to see if there was still a sizable lump. You should see a lump at least 24 hours after a feed.

When I no longer saw a lump after 24 hours, I fed 2 pinkies to each snake. I did that for 5 feedings and then moved to one fuzzy for each snake (making sure that the fuzzies were not bigger than one-and-a-half times the girth of the snake.

You can actually hold the mouse up to the widest part of the snake to sort of eyeball it. The next step after fuzzy is hopper, and then adult. I can't find hoopers around here, so I will have to move right to adults.

Did the man feed her all 3 at the same time? This seems like an awful lot. IMO, you should move up to fuzzies right away if she is eating 3 pinkies at a time. Older mice offer more nurishment than their younger counterparts.

Yikes! I just realized that you said 45cm. One of my snakes is 57 cm, and the other is 52 cm. Both are on fuzzies and about to be upgraded again. Hopefully, this will help you make a decision.
 
I fed pinkies every 4 days. I feed one fuzzy every 5 days. I will feed 1 hooper every 6 days (if I can find them), and then 1 adult every 7 days. This worked out well for me, and both of my corns are good feeders. Good luck!
 
I did and am doing the same as PnyKlr... I fed my corn pinkies/peach fuzzies every 4 days, and I'm now on larger fuzzies every 5 days. I believe I will then go to hoppers every 6 days and adults every week.
 
Do peach fuzzies every 4 days for a few feedings and then move to regular fuzzies every 5 days. That is, unless you are trying to power-feed, but I really don't see a need for that.
 
Peach fuzzies are a step between pinkies and fizzies. They have a light coating of fur just starting up, and tend to be pink or peach in color (whereas fuzzies are white with a bit more hair).

Power-feeding is when someone shortens the amount of time between feedings so that their snake can get larger faster. In most cases, I think people power-feed so that they can get a female to prime breeding weight, before she is of breeding age. There is a 3-3-3 method many use to determine if a female is old/big enough to breed. It stands for 3 years old, 3 feet long, and 300 grams if I'm not mistaken. Power-feeding will get a snake to that size before the snake is 3 years old. I am not too sure on how safe it may or may not be.

I hope this helps some.
 
Go ahead and feed the three pinkies in two meals, then go to fuzzies.

It is not power feeding if it is only for two feedings. Just don't make a habit of it. Doing it all the time would constitute power feeding. Doing it once or twice constitutes not wasting tiny mice's lives.

I see no need to go to peach fuzzies if the snake can handle three pinkies. I've never fed a peach fuzzy to any of my snakes. I go straight to fuzzies.
 
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