Can you feed your bp more then once a week?

MY question is can you feed your ball ptython more then once a week.meaning like every other day.or can you feed them every day?it seems like all my bps want to eat all the time like there machines. if i walk by them there ready to strike at any movement.normaly i feed them every weds or fri of every week.but it just seems like they dont eat the way they act. can you just feed them till they dont want to eat?i know in the wild food doesnt come easy but if it did would it be bad if they ate every day or other day?

im new to this game but id say no. maybe just maybe one week out of a year you could feed twice a week givin you allowed a couple of days to digest the first meal.food in the wild comes randomly.my bp is a pig and ready for food anytime.id wait to see what others think.

Hi,

For younger ball pythons you can fed them more than once a week - say every 5 days.

But definately not a great idea to feed them every other day.


dr del

If your balls are that hungry and striking i would ask if your feeding appropriately sized prey?

I feed my younger smaller ones on a 5 days schedule - I adopted a 300 gramer that was definately underfeed and i have been trying to fatten her up. The larger and adult ones are on a 7 day schedule...

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Originally Posted by womsterr

If your balls are that hungry and striking i would ask if your feeding appropriately sized prey?

I feed my younger smaller ones on a 5 days schedule - I adopted a 300 gramer that was definately underfeed and i have been trying to fatten her up. The larger and adult ones are on a 7 day schedule...

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they all eat the right size meals it just seems like they eating machines. i feed on a one a week deal.i was just wondering if it would hurt to feed them more then once a week.guess ill just stick with that.thanks for some input tho.

Mine all eat every 4 or 5 days. I rotate the schedule and feed 4 days and then 5, back to 4 and so on. I have a bunch of happy little sausages.

Regards,

B

Every other day is too often to feed them. Mine are bottomless pits. They even eat in full blue. They would eat anything, any time. I don't let them. I keep reminding myself that they are only snakes. They are not part of this decision-making process.

They are eating every 5 days but they're still small and growing rapidly. They're currently taking 2 rodents at a time because I'm using up my frozen prey that they've outgrown.

Next week when I use up the last of the weaned rats they'll be going on one small rat per meal.

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Originally Posted by Simple Man

Mine all eat every 4 or 5 days. I rotate the schedule and feed 4 days and then 5, back to 4 and so on. I have a bunch of happy little sausages.

Regards,

B

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This is pretty much what I do also :gj:

Pythons are oportunistic feeders. In the wild, they may go weeks with no food. Their systems are designed to eat only periodically. Younger snakes eat more frequently as they are growing and their metabolisms are higher. That is why the general recommendation is every 5 days for babies and moving up to every 7 for adults.

You say your snakes are eating appropriate sized food items, but what does that mean? How big are they and/or how old and just what are they eating? There are many piggy BPs out there, but generally a snake that's snapping at anything that's moving truly is hungry. That doesn't mean you should feed more frequently, but perhaps you should re-evaluate if your prey items are really the appropriate size. Your BP can/should eat a rodent about as big as the thickest point around its girth. They can swallow larger prey than we think they can. Or you can try a 2nd prey item if your rodents are smaller. Another rule of thumb is to feed about 10-15% of your snake's body weight. So if your BP is 1000 grams, he should be eating a 100 gram rat or two 50-55 gram rats/mice approximately. .....But only once every 7 days or so..... ;)

I feed some snakes 2 times a week and others weekly.
I've found feeding smaller prey items multiple times a week keeps them on feed better than feeding larger meals once a week.
Especially with the larger females :)