!LIVE FEEDING! Viewer Discretion ~ juvenile bp catching prey comp.

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at the time of adoption, i would guess that it was about 18” long. i was trying to feed it f/t pinkies, then f/t fuzzies that were one size up from pinkies.

i don’t have a good scale to weigh it, so i’m clueless of the weight, but it’s now somewhere between 26” and 30” long (never lets me straighten it out completely for precise measurement without bending somewhere else).

this brings about a good question i’ve been meaning to ask… Is my 40 gallon 36”x18”x18” terrarium sufficient or should i be upgrading by now or at a particular size?

Pinkies (assuming mouse pinkies, not rat-) are not big enough to feed even a new hatchling BP, fyi. They start off on food the size of fuzzies or hoppers (mice) or baby rats of the comparable size.

Don't worry about exact length, & fyi, you can hurt your snake by forcibly straightening its body out to measure. So again, not to worry.

Yes, 40 gal. tank is plenty big enough.