What size should I feed my ball?

[Felecia]

He's about 3-4 ft, I don't know how many grams (pics bellow). He is a good size, well fed, and the guy before me fed him small/medium mice every two weeks, but I think he looks like he could take at least large mice or small rats.

[Dracoluna]

At that size, he could easily take small-medium rats without a problem. I don't go by weight so much as looking at the snake and even my adult breeders are on small rats since the size can vary when ordering f/t in bulk. As long as it's not larger than he is around, you shouldn't have any issues.

[Hogosha]

Firstly you need to check his weight, then I can check on my feeding table. Second you need to get him onto a 5-7 feeding cycle. Then he will grow nicely.



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[AlexisFitzy]

Definitely feed him small rats. 1 every week would be perfect for him.


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[Connor123star]

We'll I have a 8 month old royal and he is already eating a small rat a week with no problems just offer one to him and see if he takes it can't hurt to try


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[CORBIN911]

If he is a male, id cut the line at small rats every 7-10 days! keeps em from getting fat and lazy!

[Felecia]

Thanks all! I plan on feeding frozen, but the people before had him on live mice, so I'm going to start with a live rat and see how he takes it. From then I'll try to convert to frozen and start him on a regular schedule.

[bumblebee1028]

Just make sure you supervise him with the rat, and have a pencil or pen nearby to stick in the rat's mouth, in case it tries to bite him while constricting. And it probably wouldn't hurt to try a frozen/thawed rat first, if you wanted to. You never know, he may take it right away.

[jdhutton2000]

If he was on live mice, get a live rat pup, closer to same size he is used to. Or you could luck out and he just want to eat regardless of frozen/thawed, live or fresh killed. Never know until you try

[Felecia]

I'd rather start with frozen and just try that, but that means a 30 minute drive, whereas there is a local pet store down the street that sells *only* live that's like 5 minutes away. I wouldn't have an issue driving the 30 minutes but it's my parents who have to drive, so I'm trying to make it easier on them