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  • 11-04-2010, 02:23 PM
    yeroc1982
    If she is hungry feed her???
    I fed her on Monday, she is about 208 grams. She seems like she is hungry and was thinking about feeding her Friday, 4 days after her last meal. Good or bad????
  • 11-04-2010, 02:29 PM
    Sarin
    That's fine. I feed my hatchlings every Monday - Friday - Wednesday until they start to refuse, then it's onto every 7 days.
  • 11-04-2010, 02:42 PM
    loonunit
    It really won't hurt her either way. But I tend to indulge hungry hatchlings.
  • 11-04-2010, 02:56 PM
    Jeo123
    What if they never refuse?
  • 11-04-2010, 03:13 PM
    Sarin
    Then I just keep them to the 5 day scedule. It won't hurt them. I stop at small rats no matter how big the snake gets - so I guess that evens it out. My 700 gram Mojave girl still pounds her small rats every 5 days and she's growing like a weed. But my 400 gram female Pinstripe only usually eats every other feeding but is still growing at a decent rate.. They're all different. :)
  • 11-04-2010, 03:48 PM
    bsash
    I agree with everything mentioned so far. You can feed baby ball pythons every four to five days, until they refuse, then go to every seven days.
  • 11-04-2010, 04:35 PM
    yeroc1982
    Sounds great! I'd like to see her grow alittle more until I cut back to 7 days. She is on rat pups now, I think weaned rats would be too big at the moment. She has always eaten every time I feed her, she is such a good eater! I think I will start offering food every four days for the next while and see how it goes. Thanks everyone!
  • 11-06-2010, 12:15 AM
    yeroc1982
    Just offered her a rat pup, 4 days from last feeding and she nailed it! Think I have to up the size of food but think weaned rats are too big, what you think?
  • 11-06-2010, 12:40 AM
    Sammy412
    I have an 0.1 female pastel who is at 138g who I just upped to small weanlings...she had no problem with those.
  • 11-06-2010, 12:52 AM
    bsash
    Maybe get a crawler, which is right before they are weaned, or if you can find some smaller weaned rats. Either way I don't think the move up in size will be a problem.
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