fatten me up

I have two under weight bps that I'm trying to get up to weight. Any good info on how to get them nice and plump without causing health issues would be very helpful.

One thing you can do, and I'm not sure how much it'll work for BP's because I've never had to do it so maybe somebody that has can chime in on this.

I've used this for Boa's. What I do instead of feeding it the appropriate size mouse weekly I'd feed it something around 75% of what I would normally feed it and I'd bump it to a 5 day schedule. This way you don't run into any issues and it'll pick your snakes up in weight. I'm not 100% sure if this will work for BP's though because those guys can be picky feeders.

I'd say don't rush it. Get them on a 5 or 6 day feeding schedule with appropriately sized meals and see how they do.

Why do you consider them under weight? Were they underfed or just not growing as fast as you want them to?

They were rescues that were under fed by last owner. Took them both the vet when I got them. I have them on the right size now. Ones on adult mice and the other is on large Hopper. Both will slam down a couple or more in one feeding if I let them. Had to reformat phone so I will post pixs sometime today.

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Originally Posted by jasonmcgilvrey83

They were rescues that were under fed by last owner. Took them both the vet when I got them. I have them on the right size now. Ones on adult mice and the other is on large Hopper. Both will slam down a couple or more in one feeding if I let them. Had to reformat phone so I will post pixs sometime today.

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The main thing is to just be patient. There is no rush for them to pick up size as them being a bit smaller won't have any ill issues.

If a snake was actually under fed you just feed it the right size prey from now on and it will catch up. If you over feed to bing it up to size that can just cause more problems.