Feeding Adults

So, ever since I joined this site I learned that adult ball pythons only need to eat "small rats." What I don't understand is, does that mean one rat per week, or more than one instead of feeding a larger rat?

As a general rule, my biggest adult girls get one "small small" rat per week ... but when I have extras, in the fall when I'm adding weight to girls, after egg laying, etc, are all times where I will double up my biggest girls ... adult boys never get doubled.

Hope this helps.

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

As a general rule, my biggest adult girls get one "small small" rat per week ... but when I have extras, in the fall when I'm adding weight to girls, after egg laying, etc, are all times where I will double up my biggest girls ... adult boys never get doubled.

Hope this helps.

-adam

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Adam...in your terms what is "small small" for us size challenged what is that in inches or grams?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

Adam...in your terms what is "small small" for us size challenged what is that in inches or grams?

Thanks

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Sorry about that ... "small small" is something I've been using on the forum for years, I forget about all the new people sometimes :P ... "Small smalls" are what I call rats that are between a wean and what the industry considers a small ... 40 - 45 grams maybe? ... I'm not much for scales so I'm guessing.

Hope that helps.

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Sorry about that ... "small small" is something I've been using on the forum for years, I forget about all the new people sometimes :P ... "Small smalls" are what I call rats that are between a wean and what the industry considers a small ... 40 - 45 grams maybe? ... I'm not much for scales so I'm guessing.

Hope that helps.

-adam

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Cool...thanks

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

As a general rule, my biggest adult girls get one "small small" rat per week ... but when I have extras, in the fall when I'm adding weight to girls, after egg laying, etc, are all times where I will double up my biggest girls ... adult boys never get doubled.

Hope this helps.

-adam

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Thanks Adam, that is exactly the information I was looking for! :)