Another question about feeding...

The guy I’m getting my girl from says she is eating live fuzzies. I can’t find live fuzzies, my store doesn’t have them. So I’m thinking of buying f/t fuzzies and trying to get her to eat that way. My question is, how long will she stay on fuzzies? Her hatch date was 6/30/18 and she weighs about 75 grams. I’d like to get an idea of how many I need to buy. TIA!

Rule of thumb is food should be 10-15% of BP weight so at 75 grams food should be atleast 11-12 grams.

Large frozen mice from Petsmart come in around 19 grams. Small mice come in around 7.5 grams, so if you go by 10% you could start with small f/t mice.

Sorry, forgot about the Medium size mice that come in around 12.5 grams. I would most likely go with them as it should be small enough not to cause issue and large enough to fill the snake.

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Originally Posted by ali.randax3

The guy I’m getting my girl from says she is eating live fuzzies. I can’t find live fuzzies, my store doesn’t have them. So I’m thinking of buying f/t fuzzies and trying to get her to eat that way. My question is, how long will she stay on fuzzies? Her hatch date was 6/30/18 and she weighs about 75 grams. I’d like to get an idea of how many I need to buy. TIA!

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Fuzzy what?

If you are feeding fuzzy mice those are not appropriate for a BP even out of the egg they eat hopper mice and not fuzzy.

At 75 grams it's either fuzzy rat or small adult mouse.

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Originally Posted by BPgirls

Large frozen mice from Petsmart come in around 19 grams. Small mice come in around 7.5 grams, so if you go by 10% you could start with small f/t mice.

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Thanks! She’s on rat fuzzies which I forgot to put in my original post. I’d like to keep her on rats.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Fuzzy what?

If you are feeding fuzzy mice those are not appropriate for a BP even out of the egg they eat hopper mice and not fuzzy.

At 75 grams it's either fuzzy rat or small adult mouse.

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Sorry, she is on rat fuzzies.

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So she should eat rat fuzzies until she is 200 grams?

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Originally Posted by ali.randax3

So she should eat rat fuzzies until she is 200 grams?

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Yup, til right around then.

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Originally Posted by craigafrechette

Yup, til right around then.

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Thank you!!