How are YOU feeding?

[Syfaio]

Just for fun, what is your routine for feeding your balls? Hatchling's or adults I'm currently doing one medium too smaller meal once weekly

[SRMD]

I feed one small rat everyday 10days, my BP is quite active at night.

If you're also asking what method, I pre-scent the room, let the rat reach room temp, then I will heat up to about 110f with a hairdryer and offer if that fails I crack the skull and usually that's never rejected.


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[BPSnakeLady]

Our lilguys are eating every three to four days, our older guys are on weaners every friday. The big guy, Sid, is on strike, but I've been offering him a small rat every friday. The other big guy & the girls coming in tomorrow, i may go with one small rat every two weeks (need to double check their schedule).


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[alucard0822]

I offer my 750g female a small rat weekly at her size, won't handle her that day, wait till she's moving around at night(usually around 9pm) then won't handle her the day after feeding. I'll move a rat from the freezer to a container with hot tapwater (1 drop dechlor) to thaw for 20 min and warm up. Then sit on top under a heat light for 5-10 minutes to warm it up above 90 and get her excited by the scent, then zombie dance with tongs, wait till she wraps it, then jerk it a couple times so she coils it tighter. If she doesn't take it after a minute or two of dancing it around infront of her, I'll put it back up top and wait 5 min to try again. If she still doesn't take it I'll leave it overnight and clean it out if still there in the morning and wait till next week. This was the only way I could get my previous picky BP to feed when I first got into it about 15 years ago, my current enchi bee has been much easier to feed, but I'll stick to the technique.

[Rickys_Reptiles]

BP is eating 1 rat per week, Boa eats 1 rat every 3 weeks, Tarantula eats a cricket every 4 days.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Open tub

Drop rat

Close tub

Repeat

Once everyone got their food

Open tub

Check remove uneaten rat if it applies

Close tub

Repeat

[se7en]

i feed my BPs every saturday

they all get a rat, the size of which depends on the size of the BP

i give the rat a little knock on the head to stun it (might seem a bit cruel, but i've had rats bite several of my snakes in the past, including one bite that got infected and required a visit to the vet), then drop it in

i prefer to put them one at a time in a seperate 40 gal plastic tub with no substrate, but a few are picky and will not eat unless they are inside their own enclosure

i just bought 4 new BPs, and they are a bit smaller, so i may feed them twice a week until they hit 300g or so

[JMBall's]

Under 6-700 grams 3-4 days depending on prey item. Once they are on small rats then every 5-7 days depending on prey size

[Sauzo]

My 230g pied bp girl gets around a 36g live rat fuzzy every 4 days and my 5ft red tail boa girl gets a medium to large rat which I prekill every 2 weeks or so. I just open the bp cage and she goes nuts and pops out of her bowl hide and stands up ready to assault anything I put in. My red tail paces the front of her cage door. When I open it. she pops her head out and I just dangle the rat by the tail with my hand blocked by the top of cage so she cant tag me and she just grabs it and wraps it up and then hangs half out of the cage while swallowing it. Then when done, she slithers back in under her RHP and curls up.

[200xth]

Feed once a week on weekends. Some eat every week, some eat every other week. Hatchlings get twice a week only until ~90g when they are switched to once a week like everyone else.