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[mike h]

Hello
My female albino royal is just under 4 months old, she is eating 2 rat weaners(approx 40grms each) a week. I weighed her and she was about 560grms so she is definately over 500grms.
My Qs is am I overfeeding her?, have other people got similer aged royals who are feeding and growing like this?
Everytime I go near her she looks at me with hungry eyes and I find it hard to limit her.
It looks like she is sold so want to make sure she has the best start possible and grows to be a baby making machine.
thanks
mike
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[Lynne]

my wee spider is around that size and age. he gets one rat weaner every 6 days. will weigh him and shove weight on later.
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[Lynne]

spider weighs 284! so NOT quite the same size. but he looks strapping, so your must look really strapping!
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[Bazzer]

Hi Mike,

my Royal gets 1 appropriate sized meal a week and by appropriate I mean one rat just smaller (but no bigger) than the girth at the widest point. I've read that over feeding can encourage them to eventually fast in order that they can catch up with how much they have eaten. If you think that in the wild, they probably won't get to feed as merrily as we feed them, so 52 feeds a year is ample. IMO of course.
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[jamie_s]

my largest mojo female that hatched on the 6th of july is just short of 700 grms,she eats weaner rats at about 60-70 grms each
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[Scott W]

Nice royal Mike! She'll make some a great addition.

With regards to feeding I don't think you can over feed a young growing royal, certainly not before they reach 1000g's.

I think a lot of people would be suprised just how quick snakes grow in the wild if conditions are good.

Two feeds a week is fine. I have many snakes that were hatched in 2006, some are now 1400g's, other still only 400g's. All offered the same amounts of food, some feed everytime and grow fast, some not so fast and some refuse the odd feed and are still as big as the biggest
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[Lynne]

so am i underfeeding mine then??
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[mike h]

Thanks all

[mike h]

[pachyderm]

Hi Mike
she is a little beauty, my graziani is just the same every time i go near her , her head comes out and looks like she is starving. So what can you do...defrost and feed