I am currently away at college and my ball python Xander is being cared for by my parents. Which have done a wonderful job so far. Im actually impressed. But there are a couple things I'm concerned about. He is eating a small rat every 7 days. My parents say he seems like he is hungry a lot. And is more active sometimes like he is looking for food. So when they mentioned this to the exotic store who sells the rats the guy said that you may want to feed him every 5 days.
I know we recently had to switch his hides because he grew out of one. And the only way to get him into the bigger one was to take the smaller one out. Which im not sure he liked lol. They also replaced my paper towel bedding with aspen. Im not rlly a fan of aspen to be honest :/ Could those changes cause the bp stress? Or is he actually still hungry?
Also Im so paranoid about him living with mites. Ahh I mean i would usually check his pits and scales for mites every week. And now its going unsupervised. He didnt have them when I left. He had been once but I still checked regularly because those mites suck!!! Im sure im just paranoid. But should I ask my parents to look in his pits and what not? I will be going home in about 2 weeks.