How much is too much?

[Zilla23]

so my Ripley is doing great!! he is a little pig!!. I have been feeding crickets and he has finally decided to eat a horn worm or two and I have some super worms and blue bottle spikes coming to try, my question is how much is too much food. I read that you should let juveniles eat as much as they want but he scarfs down ALL his crickets (10-12) and then I give him some by hand to try to build some trust, I truly believe that he would just keep eating and eating if I kept giving them to him. Today he ate 20!! (only because I got excited because he was holding my finger with his little "mitten") Should I just let him be the judge of when he is full and keep going? Or should I cut him off?

 

[Syreptyon]

How old is he? If he is still growing, I think 20 a day is fine - he needs the food to grow

 

[JoshD49]

I fed all of mine around 20 a day until they cut themselves down around the 6 month mark. Hornworms I wouldn't do anymore then 2 a week because they get runny bowel movements with too many more. Supers I feed them as a meal once a week but this can be risky as my male panther seems to hunger strike for them. My veiled used to but not anymore. My female panther won't eat anything but crickets haha

 

[Zilla23]

How old is he? If he is still growing, I think 20 a day is fine - he needs the food to grow

I think he is four months or so, they didn’t give me a hatch date

 

[Beman]

I had Beman at 20 a day at that age. He curbed himself back by about 5 and a half months.