When to change feeding schedule?

I have 2 questions. 1st: When is a good time to change from 5-days to a weekly feeding (When snake reaching a certain weight?)? Last question is: I've been using the 10-15% of body weight every 5-days. Can I also use the 10-15% or over time I should stop? Asking so I know what to do when they get bigger. I don't know but should I stop the 10-15% of body weight feeding?


Alana: Oct 5th 74grams
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Alana: Nov 28th 170grams on a 10-15% feeding Schedule every 5-days
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I keep mine on a twice a week schedule until there 600 grams (tues&fri). If they don't eat one of those days I don't sweat it, but they almost always do. But all my ball pythons that weigh over 600 grams get fed every friday. Its not a rule but it's what works for me.

At that weight right now your little one should have no problem slamming rat pups. That's what I feed mine that are close to her size.

Hope this helps

I keep them on 5 days until 500 grams. I don't use the 10-15% rule though, I go by the widest girth of the snake.
Now my Lex is right above 400 grams last time she was weighed but is a strict white live mouser, so she gets 2 mice right now.

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She's already eating 20g rat pups.

I go by the widest girth like crazymonkee, Maybe someone who does the 10-15% rule can chime in.

I do the 10-15% every five days until they hit 500 grams, then they get a small rat or large ASF once a week. My largest two get a medium rat weekly.

At 200g (and now at 263g) my pastel was on a small rat weanling every 7 days. My Het GS is on a rat fuzzie (in the UK it goes pink - pup - fuzzie - small weanling etc etc) and she has one of these every 5 days if that helps?

Is it ok to always go by the 10-15% rule? 2000-gram equals to a 300-gram rat, or is that just too much?

The Highest most people go up to for adults is medium rats. Most big girls can eat large but medium seems to be the norm.

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Originally Posted by jessica87

Is it ok to always go by the 10-15% rule? 2000-gram equals to a 300-gram rat, or is that just too much?

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Once they get to 500g I switch them over to small rats and ditch the 10% to 15% guideline altogether (I only loosely follow it anyways). You'll never really need a 300g rat. Some people leave their adults on small rats (60 to 70g). Some do mediums, but that's only about ~120g to ~140g.