Over feeding?

My male BP was hatched back in late August (13') and when I purchased him he was 110 grams on November 25th and only eating live hopper mice. Well now it's January 3rd and he just poop & pee weighing him at 206 grams empty eating 20-25 gram rat pups f/t. I know males are smaller than females I just want to know if I'am not over feeding him. Oh feeding every 4-days but change that about 2 weeks now it's every 5-days.

The general rule (I have read) is 10-15% of their body weight until 300 grams. With him being a baby still I doubt you'll be overfeeding him, unless you powerfeed :P a breeder on a thread recently suggested that babies should be gaining about 50-100g a month, if that helps.
Search some more threads for when to switch to a different measure of feeding. My guy is around the same weight as yours, but gaining much slower (he was 116 when I got him in the middle of September, just over twice that now and I feed every 5-6 days at 10%).

I wouldn't worry though, if I was you :)

Best of luck.

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Originally Posted by jessica87

My male BP was hatched back in late August (13') and when I purchased him he was 110 grams on November 25th and only eating live hopper mice. Well now it's January 3rd and he just poop & pee weighing him at 206 grams empty eating 20-25 gram rat pups f/t. I know males are smaller than females I just want to know if I'am not over feeding him. Oh feeding every 4-days but change that about 2 weeks now it's every 5-days.

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I don't think you're overfeeding him. Should be fine. I have some that gained weight like that at that size eating every 4 or 5 days.