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  • 02-04-2017, 01:58 PM
    HugoAB
    Ball python weigth not enough for age?
    Hello,
    My female bumblebee ball python is currently about 4.5 months old and weighting 175g.

    At first I was feeding an adult mouse every 5 days, but now I'm doing it every 7 days to feed the same day as I feed my boa. I'm a little worried, since I saw a chart that said most bp's are averaging about 230gr at 4 months old. Am I underfeeding her? She has only missed a meal because I went out of town and left her with someone that didn't want to feed a rodent haha, but she's an amazing eater with an amazing FR.

    Thank you so much
  • 02-04-2017, 02:26 PM
    TurkeyPython
    Re: Ball python weigth not enough for age?
    Nope. She's fine. As long as the prey you're feeding her is about the same size as her girth she's fine. That's not a bad weight and it's better to slightly underfeed a snake than to overfeed at all
  • 02-04-2017, 02:26 PM
    Meerna
    I wouldn't say so. There can't really be a feeding chart for snakes, they all grow at their own rate. She may have been a very small hatchling. If your husbandry is good and the mice aren't too small, I don't see a problem.
  • 02-04-2017, 02:35 PM
    Stewart_Reptiles
    Forget size charts they is no accuracy and there is no such a thing, the weight of an animal depends on weight straight out of the egg, prey size, feeding frequency, how fast the animal is started and food refusal.

    For example a healthy animal that hatch at 40 grams, starting to eat 4 weeks after hatching, getting started on large fuzzy to small hopper would be a lot smaller at 4 months than an hatchling hatching out at 90 grams starting to eat a small adult mouse the day after they hatch.

    What matter is overall body condition / proportion and the fact that the animal actually eat.
  • 02-04-2017, 03:12 PM
    CALM Pythons
    Re: Ball python weigth not enough for age?
    Thats a good weight. If she was 100G I'd say theres a problem. My Male is 6.5 months and 250G. My Female is 3.5 months and 150G.
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