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TRD · 03-07-18, 04:21 PM

Please try and remember this: GTP are long and slender snakes... The head is bigger/wider than their body. Look at pictures of wild specimen.

That they always eat is because they are usually not very successful hunters. They are highly opportunistic and will ALWAYS eat when offered. They also have special adaptations in the digestive system that is build to accepting a prey item SOMETIMES and after that goes in a full energy saving mode. They can go long long times without food, they are build for that. You are trying to compare them to mammals that waste 80%+ of their caloric intake into heating their bodies. Snakes do not work this way. Do not go with "I feed it if it takes the food" because it will take the food, it will lead to obesity, and as a result to an unhealthy animal and early death.

03-07-18, 04:21 PM	#11
TRD Member Join Date: Dec-2016 Posts: 715 Country:	Re: How often to feed my male GTP Please try and remember this: GTP are long and slender snakes... The head is bigger/wider than their body. Look at pictures of wild specimen. That they always eat is because they are usually not very successful hunters. They are highly opportunistic and will ALWAYS eat when offered. They also have special adaptations in the digestive system that is build to accepting a prey item SOMETIMES and after that goes in a full energy saving mode. They can go long long times without food, they are build for that. You are trying to compare them to mammals that waste 80%+ of their caloric intake into heating their bodies. Snakes do not work this way. Do not go with "I feed it if it takes the food" because it will take the food, it will lead to obesity, and as a result to an unhealthy animal and early death.