Feeding Question For Breeding!

[Daniel Kiely]

Hi all,

I was just curious to how you would feed your ball pythons to get it to breeding size but without over feeding it and making it fat. Please sumit some tips.

Thanks in advance.

[1nstinct]

feed them a rat/mouse that weights 10-15% of your ball pythons weight. aka 100 gram bp gets a 10-15 gram rat/mouse. thats will get them to breeding size the safest way.

[Andybill]

I feed on a schedule that looks something like this:

up to 350g rat pup every 5 days

350-700 weaned/small rat every 6 days

700+ med every 7 days

Typically you should feed a prey item whose weight 10-15% of the snakes weight. I tend to feed a prey item that is 15% and I stick to the schedule. If they dont feed then I will try again on the next scheduled feeding day.

[aalomon]

Also remember that snakes grow at different rates, even if you feed them on the same schedule.

[mues155]

I feed on a schedule that looks something like this:

up to 350g rat pup every 5 days

350-700 weaned/small rat every 6 days

700+ med every 7 days

Typically you should feed a prey item whose weight 10-15% of the snakes weight. I tend to feed a prey item that is 15% and I stick to the schedule. If they dont feed then I will try again on the next scheduled feeding day.

X2

Snakes will grow at their own rates. some are great at packing on the grams and others not so much.
Just don't get discouraged if it won't eat every time, the snake knows what it needs.

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