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Don't worry Heather, this was the first time ever that I've offered him more than one prey item and within one week of his last feed, and I only did this cos I had an idea that he would be hungry.
I always go by the girth rule aswel, however the last batch of mice I bought were a little on the small side, plus he's had a bit of a growth spurt recently, but they are all eaten now and i've bought some jumbo mice for him now which I'm going to offer once a week as before.
Generaly he doesn't bother to move around much in his tank, although now he's getting bigger I see more activity from him. He comes out for a handling session usualy about once or twice a day for between 10 minutes to about half an hour, sometimes more. He stays in his cage for up to about 3 days after feeding and I usualy leave him in his cage all the time when he's `in blue` as he bit me once when I got him out `in blue`.
I'm planning on making him a nice big cage soon because the one he's in at the moment is only 2ft long . I was going to leave it till he reaches 2.5ft, then build him a nice 5ft one to be going on with.
Until now, my boa has always done his poo about 7 or 8 days after his last feed like clockwork, and I usualy wait till he's done a poo before I offer him his next meal.
Just to clarify....there is no way that I intend to power feed my snake. but yeah....I know what you mean about the hunting instinct. My corns seem as if they would eat and eat and eat. At first it made me feel like I wasn't feeding them enough but I'm used to it now.
He still has not done a poo yet by the way, but there are no lumps near his bum . I'm not too worried but I'm keeping an eye on him. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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