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Potential Age?

HelloSweetie

HelloSweetie

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Finally Pooped after 3 days so I had a little hold,

I'm curious at how old he could potentially be and if anyone could help me out?

He weighs roughly 450 grams. (Between 435-470) weighed a couple of times

His length is roughly 38" (98 cm) That was harder to get haha

Currently on one medium mouse a week but soon to go up to a large as he took it down easy peasy. :)​
 

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Your snake is an adult or at least a sub-adult. There's no way to tell how old. It could be 2 years or it could be 10 years.

Full grown corn snakes can range in length from 3 feet to 6 feet, although the majority are around 4 to 5 feet.

I prefer to speak in terms of weight when talking about feeder mice. Because what some people call a "Medium Mouse" other people may call it a Hopper. Some companies package mice as Small, Medium, Large and Jumbo, and it can vary from distributor to distributor and can be confusing.

You stated you feed that snake a Medium mouse, but what does that really mean?

My snake is much smaller than your's (about 210 grams) and he's eating mice that weigh 20 to 25 grams. They are packaged as "Large Mice" where I buy them. Your snake should be eating mice bigger than that. You stated your snake weighed 450 grams. If that was my snake, I'd be feeding it at least a 30 gram mouse (regardless of what you want to call it).

I have always fed snakes based on weight. Some people think that's confusing. Mathmatically challenged folks I guess, but it's quite simple if you have a scale. You weigh the snake, you weigh the mouse. You feed a mouse that weighs about 10% of the snake's weight. If you can't find a mouse that big you opt for a Chick or a Rat. When the snake is young and still growing, you feed weekly, and once it's full grown you feed every 2 or 3 weeks so the snake doesn't get fat. I have been feeding snakes like this for over 40 years and never had a health issue related to feeding, never had a regurge, never had a snake die other than from old age.

I would say your snake is certainly nearing full grown status.
 
Thank you for your insight :)

I understand about the different ranges of mouse per country/ pet shop etc, i Will be sure to weigh them from now on so thank you for that as i had no idea.

The 'medium' mice that i have, he took down one with ease, if 2 weighed 45g would it be better to give him 2? or just use up the rest i have and bump up when they are gone, i definetly don't want to underfeed or overfeed.

As he was a resue ive had no idea on his hatch month or anything even close haha, but again thank you for your advice its always good to learn new things :)
 
yes, you could feed 2. It's hard to find mice that big and a lot of folks think it's bad to feed rats (even though it's really not). I actually have a friend with a huge corn snake that feeds 3 mice per feeding.
 
I don't see much reason to continue upping regular feeder sizes once a snake is ~300-400g in weight, especially a male or a non-breeding animal, unless you just want to push their growth to the max potential (in which case I'd advise getting a larger-bodied snake to begin with). My 6-year-old male eats two ~10g reptilinks every 10 days (calories approx. equivalent to a 25-30g mouse) and is still steadily gaining weight. Two 23g mice seems a touch excessive to me, but if you do choose to feed doubles consider extending the time between feedings to every 2 weeks. Many keepers advocate larger meals less often as it is, so a ~45g meal every 14 days could be just fine for him.
 
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