Store owner said two rats?

I can tell you from experience that a 114 g "medium" rat is quite large. Our 907g BP male took one down just fine but he is one very content snake with a noticeable bump. This rat is/was a good 4-5" long. About how big are these rats you've been feeding him?

my big girls get 2 med rats (150g+/-) most weeks. with 2 med thats 300g +/- with a 3500g + female thats still less than 10% of her body weight. there are people that only feed 1 small rat a week i tend to feed my snakes a little on the heavy side but this is still within the acceptable range

I think 2 mediums, especially for a male, is too much. The most I feed is a medium a week although I have two large females with insane feeding responses for a bp (literally they think they're freaking retics) where I'll ocassionally alternate a large one week and a medium the next. But for a male, I'd never consider two mediums at one time.

My big male gets one medium rat a week. He does tend to start cruising around his cage at night looking for food 4-5 days after he eats. He sometimes gets a small rat as well when my other ball decides not to eat.

He ate the first one like a champ, as usual. But the second one he seemed more curious about than anything. Eventually he half attempted to strike, then changed his mind. Then smells his cage where the rat was. I guess he's content with one medium a week. :)

Wait a minute. So you're saying that even though everyone here advised against it, you still tried to feed your BP two medium rats at once? :confused: If that's the case, why did you bother to start a thread asking for advice? I would hate to see you hurt your pet (possible regurge).

I would recommend feeding a prey equal your BP's girth size without feeding anything much larger than 120 grams once a week this will allow you to have a BP that feed with more consistency.

If you have a male and not a female I would suggest feeding an even smaller prey my giggest males in the 1100 grams do not really get anything larger than 75 grams rats once a week and generally it's really more around 55 grams.

If not for feeding purposes, a scale is the best indicator of weight loss! I always, ALWAYS, do a before and after weighing of my bp to see what empty and full tsweights are. If his weight is significantly lower than previous weighs (on empty, of course), I know theres something wrong! :) I got my scale and bowl for it for about 17 USD on Amazon, and I use it almost every day. :D (For all my different reptiles)