Feed BP until she stops eating?

Let it digest what you've fed it, some will eat till they look like a stuffed sausage, you don't want to feed it for another week now ;)

Yes, I'd wait at least 5 days between feedings if she's eating the right size of prey. A few of mine will "hunt" right after eating, but if offered more prey they never actually follow through with eating it.

You don't want to risk a regurge at this point, and the greedy little thing won't starve if she has to wait a few days.

Chances are once she has a few days to relax and digest her meal, she settle down.

I had a young female who acted that way. She was convinced she was starving to death on one adult mouse every 5 days. She snapped at everything, she'd even grab random mouthfuls of shavings after eating if it still smelled like mouse. Finally I broke down and offered her a big ol' weaned rat. About three times the size of the mice she'd been eating. It took her forever to get it down, and then she was still looking for more! :O However, by the next morning her gluttony had caught up to her and she acted like me after Thanksgiving dinner. Now she is much more reasonable about her food. One adult mouse is just fine for her now, thank you all the same. She just had a little appetite spike and didn't know what to do about it.

Gale

Hello dear
i have also some prey and snacks and they eat much as they like. It is good for animals health that they should be eat as they want.

I can guarantee you that a few of mine if "they eat much as they like" would end up round as a sausage until they split ....NVM :rolleye2:

Responsible feeding keeping close to 10 to 15 percent of the snakes body weight weekly will give you a healthy snake :)

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

I can guarantee you that a few of mine if "they eat much as they like" would end up round as a sausage until they split ....NVM :rolleye2:

Responsible feeding keeping close to 10 to 15 percent of the snakes body weight weekly will give you a healthy snake :)

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Update:

Now, she is eating a 4th mouse, medium to large size.

Will try to feed her a 5th after her first feeding time is up.

Pyth

I know they will eat till they are looking like a sausage are you testing this theory :confused:

If you don't be careful, you'll have a regurge and then she'll have to wait 2 weeks until she can eat again. Slow down, it's not healthy to feed her like that. Once a week at a yr of age is appropriate, and one prey item of the correct size is all that's necessary. You overwork her digestive system, and she'll get sick.

Thanks for the advice, all! She is now eating healthily.