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Hey I have a garter snake that I have been feeding rosy reds (the fish your not supposed to feed) until a couple months ago when I remembered not too. He was getting one a day and always appeared healthy, not skinny. I switched him to small "comets" every day/otherday but they still worry me either way and I read they are not complete nutrition. I want to feed him pinky mice that i can just give him one a week for full nutriton. My problem was not getting him to eat it but the size of it. I could tell he was going to be able to get it down but it just seemed a little un healthy. I also read you should feed them once a week enough to make a small buldge (which is what my fish make) but I feed him every day and he's not getting fat. So my question is if the snake can fit it down is it ok for them? Can they put down a dangerously large prey item (prekilled by the way) without knowing it? Or do they know the limit?
PS he didn't eat the pinky I gave him. I accidentaly scared him off of itwhile picking parts of the aspen bedding off of the mouse..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48944632@N02/5137725638/ That is him and the size of the fish he eats. Does he look under weight? And is that how big his mice should be?
PS he didn't eat the pinky I gave him. I accidentaly scared him off of itwhile picking parts of the aspen bedding off of the mouse..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48944632@N02/5137725638/ That is him and the size of the fish he eats. Does he look under weight? And is that how big his mice should be?