RE:ball python sizw\e

ok i have had my ball python for about 2.5 years now. she is a little over 2 ft long and she isnt that big around either. she escaped from her cage a while ago for about a month, and that kept me from feeding her for a while. i have been looking at 2 yr old bp's and there way bigger than my bp.dont u think she should be a little bit bigger or something.i feed her once a week. what do you think???I finaly figured out how to put pics on here so heres some pics of here.she's really not big at all.
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Some snakes grow a little slower than others, but yours does sound a little small still. It has been almost 3 years.. Whats her weight and how much are you feeding her every week?

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Originally Posted by ogdentrece

Some snakes grow a little slower than others, but yours does sound a little small still. It has been almost 3 years.. Whats her weight and how much are you feeding her every week?

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idk her weight, iv been searching for a scale. and i just started feeding her adult mice.one a week

my snake is barely a year old and an adult mouse was getting too small for her. I also fed about every 5 days.

Mice are to small for her if she will eat rats then thats what she needs she will not get very big on a mouse a week she should probably be on hopper rats or bigger by now. IMO

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Originally Posted by VicShell

Mice are to small for her if she will eat rats then thats what she needs she will not get very big on a mouse a week she should probably be on hopper rats or bigger by now. IMO

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Given the snake's current size (disregarding age, since size matters more than age when it comes to meal size), I think really full grown adult mice might still cut it. I do doubt his snakes over 300g at that length, and if that is so, a full grown mouse which is about 25-30g (or those crazy jumbo mice you can buy frozen from most suppliers which hit 35+) weekly is enough really. More than enough. At 250g my ball was rejecting anything over 20g all the way up to 350. He reached that in a couple of months plus? Slightly slow due to light intake but still growing substantially. I was worried about this, Dr. Del told me it should be fine, he is afterall getting more than he would in the wild. And his growth proved that.

But yes I would change to rats ASAP, since its a pain to change a ball python's diet once its any older. And feeding multiple mice weekly is too. Of course doing that isn't detrimental, there are many mousers around here too, but you get the idea. And get a scale it really helps with so many things.