Recommended eating frequency?
I bought my young BP about four months ago, and he's eating no problem. I had initially been feeding it a rat pup every two weeks, since it initially didn't eat every week. But the last month or so it's been immediately going after the rat pup as soon as I introduced it. A week ago I made the mistake of putting my BP "Fluffy" into a holding cage, THEN trying to drop the rat in. It wound up striking my hand instead, thinking it was the rat. So I'm now putting Fluffy into the cage first, then I drop in the rat.
But with him being so aggressive toward his food, I'm thinking that I may need to start feeding him twice a week? Is that too much? Or either a larger rat/mouse. What frequency do the rest of you feed yours? Fluffy is about two feet long and a little over an inch in diameter at the largest.
Re: Recommended eating frequency?
For my younger or smaller snakes, I offer prey items weekly. Older and larger animals can have frequency dropped to every 10 to 14 days.
-Jen
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Neal
First off you don't have to put your BP in another enclosure and many will recommend against it. BP's get stressed entirely way to easy so just feed him in the enclosure he's in.
I'm afraid that if I give him his mouse/rat in his existing cage, he may ingest some of the wood chips along with the prey, which I'd rather avoid. Besides, he doesn't have any hesitation to taking what I give him in what I put him in (a round plastic bowl of sorts).
Recommended eating frequency?
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Tricon7
I'm afraid that if I give him his mouse/rat in his existing cage, he may ingest some of the wood chips along with the prey, which I'd rather avoid. Besides, he doesn't have any hesitation to taking what I give him in what I put him in (a round plastic bowl of sorts).
I feed outside of her enclosure in a separate box. but I have fed her on cypress mulch and she has swallowed a piece here and there. now I've starting feeding her in a bare box to avoid that issue. she doesn't strike me unless she gets a sudden hand in the face when she's really hungry.
Recommended eating frequency?
AND she's 2 months old and eats two mice every 7 days or so... so how old is your snake?, you may be over feeding if you're giving a rat pup twice a week.. that seems a bit much.