What size prey do you feed your adult BP's?

I'm curious, what size prey (by weight or by snout-base of tail length) do you give to your adult ball pythons in general, once they are several years old and have basically stopped growing? Also: Do you feed them once a week or less frequently?

The reason I ask is that I have some 60-gram rats and some ~120-gram rats, and a 1300-gram female ball python. The 60-gram rats seem too small for her, but the 120-gram rats seem like they're pushing her limit? What do you think?

I feed my larger snakes 80g prey once a week :gj:

It depends, I generally give my biggest girl about an 80 to 100g rat each feeding. She's around 1600g and that seems to suit her just fine.

I don't know the weight but I feed smalls to everyone.

Well, now that I'm buying rats to supplement my production, and my rat guy weighs them - my very biggest girls are getting about 130 gram rats. The other adults are getting about 100 grams.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Well, now that I'm buying rats to supplement my production, and my rat guy weighs them - my very biggest girls are getting about 130 gram rats. The other adults are getting about 100 grams.

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do you feed them all every seven days, or do some of your snakes go for a longer period between feedings? cause my two largest females, floating between 900-1050g each, if fed two large adult mice will eat weeklly, but if fed small/med rats will go every two weeks. Just curious if its just my girls that are being picky....

i don't know weiht wise. but all my yearlings and huge adult females eat, small rats. i feed every other week. but i give them double's. the yearlings were on rat weanlings, but are now on smalls. i'll give them one wait an hour and give them another. my big girls eat two or three at a time. but for my males. i usually only feed them one everyother week. except for the baby's they get fed twice a week. on hopper mice or rat pups.

Small rats (4 weeks old 65-85 grams)

Once a week most of the year, every 5 days for breeder females (from September to January)

all of mine like smaller prey even my 3600g female likes one adult asf, med to large rats spook her & she won't eat them.They eat smaller prey better. I think at least mine do.

My large male (approx. 5' 5", 3200g) takes medium rats. Although he could take a large. I just don't want to risk overfeeding.

My smaller size female (approx. 3' 6", 1200g) takes small rats.