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Originally Posted by mikm
BTW ... it's not a 'stupid question'. I would venture to say those with an interest in this 'hobby' have (at least one time or another) garnered invaluable information from previously unknown sources. I find this to be a very nice (garter snake) community ... SO ... ask at will, lol 
enjoy your evening,
marian
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At least you didn't say "there is no such thing as a stupid question" I work in retail, trust me there are such things as stupid questions.
you are correct however, the question asked by the OP was not a stupid question.
I started my snakes on pinkies when I found the smallest pinkies I could that were about twice the diameter of the snakes. That was easy for me however since I raise my own mice and I usually have a hundred or so babies at any one time to choose from.
In my experience the majority of people severely underestimate the size of prey their snakes can handle. I had one customer with a three year old corn snake and she was still feeding it 6 fuzzies at a time because "it didn't look like it could eat anything bigger" I got her switched to adult mice and saved her a bunch of money. Cost me some sales but gained me a customer for life.
I have one customer with 5 year old burm that she feeds "3 of the largest mice you have" about every 10 days, and she refuses to move it up because she "doesn't want it to get too big"