Just weighted my BP, few questions

So I finally went out and bought a food scale (for myself) but figured I can use it for snake too. Well he/she just ate a large frozen mouse from petsmart and I weighted the BP at 469g. With that weight should I be sticking with a large mouse or go up to a rat? The BP is in a 20g long but will be hopefully changing his home to a animal plastic home. With knowing that weight is there a way to tell what size hide the snake should have? I believe the hides that are in there are way to big, and I'm not sure if that is good or not? Last question I feed once a week is that good? Any help I highly appreciate!

A snake of that weight I would be feeding a small rat. As for hides, the rule is a snug one. If you get a hide that's too big, crumpled up paper inside can help the snake feel more secure. Once a week is just fine :) Especially if you move up to small rats. I like to take it slow sometimes with my snakes.

My BP is only a littler bigger then yours (520g 2 weeks ago) and her last feeding she took a 100g small rat. That's bigger then I wanted by a little bit but its the smallest I could find with out going to pinkies. She ate it just fine. In about 6 hours I will be feeding her again and its another 100g rat on the menu. Where I live its hard to find anything but small mice, pinkies and large adult rats. I feed P/K because I usually need to buy smaller feeders and grow them for a couple weeks to get them up to size.

My BP always liked the smallest hide she could squeeze into. Now she is in a tub with out a "hide". But she has about 2 inches of aspen and some fake plants that she gets under and piles up the aspen around her on her hot side. So it looks like a perfectly round clearing in the tub with a BP curled up in it

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My BP is only a littler bigger then yours (520g 2 weeks ago) and her last feeding she took a 100g small rat. That's bigger then I wanted by a little bit but its the smallest I could find with out going to pinkies. She ate it just fine. In about 6 hours I will be feeding her again and its another 100g rat on the menu. Where I live its hard to find anything but small mice, pinkies and large adult rats. I feed P/K because I usually need to buy smaller feeders and grow them for a couple weeks to get them up to size.

My BP always liked the smallest hide she could squeeze into. Now she is in a tub with out a "hide". But she has about 2 inches of aspen and some fake plants that she gets under and piles up the aspen around her on her hot side. So it looks like a perfectly round clearing in the tub with a BP curled up in it

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How do you grow out a pinkie?

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Thanks guys! I will getting small rats this weekend to feed him during week.

Question on hide, what kind of spray paint is safe for snakes? Found some hides I like but hate color so was going paint them black so its dark for the snake.

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How do you grow out a pinkie?

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I don't buy pinkies. But I have bought small rats that are 30/50 grams under what i want (about 100g or a little bigger at this point) just because its all I could find in my area and I keep a couple in a 10g tank or critter keeper and feed them till they are where I need them. Then on feeding day pull the one that's the right size, dispatch it, and feed it to my girl.

Where I live I can't be to picky sometimes, not many rat breeders here and usually they want to hold on to them till their full grown to maximize their profits.

Ok I completely read it wrong. Now that makes sense lol

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If people reading my comment have seen others from me talking about feeding live I switch to P/K because I'm afraid of the bigger rats causing injury during feeding.