Overly aggressive feeders?

[GarterGirl]

Well
One of mine is but
not about pinkies.
Nightcrawlers!
One of my snakes,
Sammy is crazy
about nightcrawlers!

[Lee]

Originally Posted by adamanteus

That's a big viv, Lee. I'm a little bit jealous!

=) Cost me around 175-200$ to build the thing, 5 ft X 2ft X 2ft 4 inches.. Around 165ish gallons or so.. they are happy.

My garters love nightcrawlers to, but I can never find them outside !

[drache]

in a tank that large you just have to be quick, so that you can feed them almost at the same time or lure them away from each other
a two-fisted feeding technique

[Lee]

I think they may have calmed down, not sure what their aggressive spirt was about, I guess my feeding pattern threw them off, put them back on a more weekly style and she was back to cowering and sneaking out to get her pinkie mice...

Now for a bit random question, how much is " too much " food. My male usually gets 3 pinkies a week (only took 2 this week) and the female 6 or 7 pinkies. She has no problem digesting this much food and is always ready for more the next week. She has eaten fuzzy rats and adult frozen mice without problems, I wouldn't be suprised if she could take down a small rat.. She is around 2.5 feet probably a little over but she never holds still for an actuall measurement and the male is around 2 feet. Does this sound like an appropriate diet?
Temps remain mid 80's F in the day, cooler with window/fan on probably a bit warmer against the plexiglass when the sun shines in. Hopeing to get them to breed (they have bonded very nicely).

[drache]

my T. e. vagrans got herself real overweight grabbing food intended for her cage mates
I now take her out of the tank when I feed them
I feed her and her tank mates (2 T.s. parietalis) one peach fuzzy per week each
peach fuzzy is a size between large pinky and fuzzy
on this diet their girth seems to remain pretty constant - not too skinny, not too fat

[Stefan-A]

How big is a peach fuzzy in terms of weight or age? Never bothered to learn the terminology.

[drache]

Originally Posted by Stefan-A

How big is a peach fuzzy in terms of weight or age? Never bothered to learn the terminology.

don't know about age, but they're around 5g, 4cm

[Stefan-A]

That would make them about 2 weeks old (or just under), if my pet store labels their mice correctly.

[Elliot]

Originally Posted by Lee

I think they may have calmed down, not sure what their aggressive spirt was about, I guess my feeding pattern threw them off, put them back on a more weekly style and she was back to cowering and sneaking out to get her pinkie mice...

Now for a bit random question, how much is " too much " food. My male usually gets 3 pinkies a week (only took 2 this week) and the female 6 or 7 pinkies. She has no problem digesting this much food and is always ready for more the next week. She has eaten fuzzy rats and adult frozen mice without problems, I wouldn't be suprised if she could take down a small rat.. She is around 2.5 feet probably a little over but she never holds still for an actuall measurement and the male is around 2 feet. Does this sound like an appropriate diet?
Temps remain mid 80's F in the day, cooler with window/fan on probably a bit warmer against the plexiglass when the sun shines in. Hopeing to get them to breed (they have bonded very nicely).

You might want to feed her fuzzies or hoppers, it'd probably be cheaper and easier for you.

[adamanteus]

I think Elliot's right there. One or two hoppers must be considerably cheaper than seven pinkies?