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readt for fuzzies?

That depends on the girth. Normally you can feed a mouse as thick as the thickest part of the body. I would say you could feed the smallest fuzzy you can find but to be safe and feed two or three pinkies instead.
 
what age is suitable for feeding fuzzies to a corn....at the moment, Smeagol is 3 months old. How long should I wait until I feed it a different size mouse?
 
Personally, i would feed the snake a mouse bigger then the tickest part of it's body. If i don't see a prey bulge anymore the next day i move up a bit. 1 1/2 the tickest part of it's body is my prefered size. Not to mention fuzzies have more nutricious value then pinkies. There snakes after all. Famous for swallowing prey bigger then themselves. They can handle it. Just don't replace 3 pinkies with 3 fuzzies. One should be enough for a while.
 
Jicin said:
There snakes after all. Famous for swallowing prey bigger then themselves. They can handle it.
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Cornsnakes are famous for not being able to handle large prey. They are nest raiders in the wild. They will eat a nest of mice eating all small ones. So they can handle more smaller prey but one big prey will often result in regurgitation.
 
True. That's why i didn't recomment anything bigger then 1 1/2 the size of the tickest part of the snake. But only feeding prey smaller or the same size of the snake is the other end. Moving up in prey size should go slowly. Go from pink to peach fuzzy, and then to fuzzy. See how each individual snake handles it.
 
Yes I would think an eighteen inch corn can eat a fuzzy mouse. Try one small fuzzy first.1 1/2 times the thickness of his body.
I bought a baby 12 inch corn that would not eat a pinky nomatter what I did.Live or frozen , Brained or cut up . Put them in a bag , drove them in a car all the things they say to try ;did not work. I tried for a couple weeks , then I went to the pet store to get make a lizzard stuff , and the guy said "here dont bother with that, feed him this" , and he gave me a live fuzzy . I looked and said " no way he could eat that he is just a little guy". Well the snake seen that fuzzy take 2 steps and wham he was all over it . Squeezed it and ate it no problem. So all he had was fuzzies .
 
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