What does this mean...? (feeding question)

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

LOL. ;) I do feed one of my BPs 4 mice at a time, since she won't eat rats... but she weighs over 700g, so probably outweighs your baby by a lot.

Anyway, try feeding in the enclosure next week, and see what happens. If she still refuses, you might have to try live the following week... good luck!

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lol ya my girl is 205 grams empty. shes grown tho i got her wen she was around 60 haha :)

and i just fed her a f/t mouse in her enclosure and she took it happily. ive never seen her be that enthusiastic about an f/t before :gj: :)

and im gona order 50 adult mice from rodentpro.com sometime this week because the ones at my store are 15$ for FOUR MICE!!! its rediculous!! :colbert: :O

thanks for the answers everyone!

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Originally Posted by bamf64

lol ya my girl is 205 grams empty. shes grown tho i got her wen she was around 60 haha :)

and i just fed her a f/t mouse in her enclosure and she took it happily. ive never seen her be that enthusiastic about an f/t before :gj: :)

and im gona order 50 adult mice from rodentpro.com sometime this week because the ones at my store are 15$ for FOUR MICE!!! its rediculous!! :colbert: :O

thanks for the answers everyone!

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You should give her rat pups if she will take them! Mine male is 182 grams and eats a rat pup every 5 days!

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Originally Posted by seeya205

You should give her rat pups if she will take them! Mine male is 182 grams and eats a rat pup every 5 days!

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Why "should" he feed rats? Mind you, I feed rats, but mice are perfectly fine for ball pythons as well. I raised most of my normal females on mice before I started breeding rats. They grew just fine!

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Why "should" he feed rats? Mind you, I feed rats, but mice are perfectly fine for ball pythons as well. I raised most of my normal females on mice before I started breeding rats. They grew just fine!

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ya i totally understand that. im going to switch her to rats when she gets to big for XL mice haha

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Originally Posted by Darkice

Balls stress easy. Moving them can pretty much make them not hungry anymore. Or they want to explore and find a place to hide.
The point is you want to stress them as little as possible.

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Wow. I can't believe I didn't think of this before... I figured that my BP just does NOT want to eat F/T. But I just realized that both times I tried to feed it to her, I had moved her to a separate tank. Since then, she's been on live, and apparently she ate F/T all the time before I got her, so I don't know if she'll revert back, but it's worth a shot!

EDIT: I also should have mentioned that since switching to live, I'd starting feeding her in her enclosure.

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Originally Posted by Moofins07

Wow. I can't believe I didn't think of this before... I figured that my BP just does NOT want to eat F/T. But I just realized that both times I tried to feed it to her, I had moved her to a separate tank. Since then, she's been on live, and apparently she ate F/T all the time before I got her, so I don't know if she'll revert back, but it's worth a shot!

EDIT: I also should have mentioned that since switching to live, I'd starting feeding her in her enclosure.

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hope it works out for you!