I have a young healthy female ball python that seems to be having issues with gaining weight - at least in comparison to my other two ball pythons. She hatched early May 2017 and I got her in late August 2017 at 103g, and yesterday when I weighed her she was only 129g. She took a whole month before she decided to eat for me after bringing her home, and that dropped her to 94g at the lowest, so it's been a pretty slow climb. I feed her every 5 days with one mouse fuzzy, and after that first month, she's always ready to eat with a very quick feeding response.
She's not skinny. I'm not worried about her being starved, I'm just wondering why she's gaining weight at such a slow rate. I really don't want to feed her less than every 5 days and power feed her if I don't need to for the time being. Since she's not thin, should this be something I shouldn't be concerned about?
I'm relatively new to snake keeping and seeing her progress so slowly compared to my other two is really starting to worry me. But if it's nothing to worry about and it just means she'll be a small lady as an adult, I'll be happy.
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