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Has Salsa eaten his own skin?!?!?!

not a big lump, ... i don't really know he's my first snake. but he doesn't seem to have a massive belly... you can't really notice it to be honest.

sorry i don't really help alot do I?

i'll try and get some photos of him and stuff to elp yu guys understand
 
WOW, my snake is about the same size as yours and I can't even imagine feeding him five pinkies! I thought two was pushing it. I think some pics of the normal amount you feed him and some pictures of your snake might help me wrap my mine around this ;). Even if they are the smallest pinkies in the world I don't see how he/she could handle them and not a fuzzy.
 
lol, i'm sorry i'm kinda really new to snake keeping. i'll upgrade him to small fuzzies. he doesn't seem to have any problem at all with the five pinkies, he swallows one in 25 seconds usually, then after another 40 seconds he's ready for his next pinkie. he really doesn'r 'seem' to have any problem with them. Why is it so wrong for him to be eating 5 pinkies instead of say.... 3 fuzzies?
 
I think you are a little confused on the numbers here...most people wouldn't feed their snake for than two of anything. Your snake should probably be eating ONE fuzzy, or TWO pinkies. Again I'm not sure exactly how big your snake is but if its about as thick as a pencil or a little thicker (like say your pinky finger) it should be eating two pinkies or one fuzzy. No matter what size of an item you are feeding your snake, I would suggest not feeding it more than two of anything. Good luck, I look forward to some pictures ;)
 
... but he doesnt seem to have any problem at all with eating that amount of pinkies, ... what should i feed him then??? he's used to eating 5 pinkies... if i cut him down to just 2 fuzzies won't get get hungry?
 
No because fuzzies are bigger than pinkies, maybe I really don't understand the situation. 40cm is about 16 inches right? I seriously can not imagine a 16 inch snake eating that much at one time. Maybe hes able to eat hoppers if he can handle 2 fuzzies, didn't you say he had trouble getting a fuzzy down? In any case snakes are reptiles, in the wild they have not definite food source, you could cut him down to 2 pinkies without a major snake-freak-out.
 
If he can eat 5 pinkies, or two fuzzies, he's more than likely able to take hoppers. I'd feed him ONE fuzzy per week for a few weeks, then switch him to hoppers.

The general rule is ONE prey item ONCE per week. The prey should be between 1 and 1.5 x the girth of the snake.

Although we are all aghast at this situation, it isn't unheard of. I remember a thread a while back (may have even been on another forum) in which a person was still feeding her adult snake pinkies. She said, "Well, that's what the pet shop told me to feed him." Her question to the forum was, "Why does my snake seem so small compared to others I see on here?" Well, she got her answer. She wasn't feeding it properly.
 
ok then, which are smaller, peach fuzzies is it??? he will often refuse anything bigger than a middle sized fuzzie. we did buy some... but he took it from me then just left it in his tank... when i gave him a pinkie later on (just to see if it was the food size that was the problem) he ate it in seconds!

I have some fuzzies now anyway, so his next feed will be fuzzies :D
 
The thing with eating such a large number of prey items at one time is it COULD cause a regurg, which is very bad for the snake's health. And peach fuzzies are pinkies that have just started to grow a thin layer of fur, but not completely covered like fuzzies are, so they're generally a little smaller than fuzzies and a little larger than pinkies. I feed my 15 inch hatchlings 1 peach fuzzie each every 5 days.
 
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