Quote Originally Posted by easterngirl View Post
was time to feed the snakes again tonight...i had been thinking that maybe it was time to increase hermes amount of food...i had been giving him a half a pinky's worth of food about every 3 days. He has grown so much though...i'd say he must be over a foot long now. I fed him on thursday..half a pinky, and he was definitely still hungry...although he had a nice little bulge...so i didn't want to give him anymore right then. So, i made him a nice big dish of food tonight...half a pinky with some tilapia and some reptamin made into powder. He of course gobbled it up...i think he was so fat that he couldn't fit out of his hide tonight! I will increase his food to a little over a half a pinky's worth every three days. I made seeley a dish of worms, tilapia, and a little reptamin powder...he ate a little, of course, not much...but some, at least. Interestingly, he ate more fish than worms this time. I gave cee cee two pinkies and two big pieces of tilapia...and then of course, she gave me "the look" and i gave her one more piece of fish. She has me wrapped around her...um tail? :d
never been one to hold to a strict or scientific type regimen myself, i have always had a casual approach to my snakes feeding, meaning they don't get exactly the same weight of food nor are they fed on the same days continually, one of the blessings of keeping snakes is that when real life intrudes into the more important snake world then feeding them a couple of days late is no problem at all, and yes i would increase his food as he gets bigger