Do you feed on a schedule?

We feed when they are hungry and when we have the time, no schedule per say, but they all tend to get offered twice a week except adults who get offered every 7-10 days.

I feed once a week, if they don't eat, they wait till next week. The only snakes that ever get offered food more often are breeder females to speed up their weight loss recovery and prepare them for the upcoming season. They generally are offered food every 4-5 days, and need it.

Every Friday for all my pythons (hatchlings- adults). For certain adults I may skip a week once or twice a month depending how fat they are lol

Absolutely I do. Every 5 days for my bp's as mine are all young. I will switch to a 7 day once they get to about 400 grams. I feed my juvi boa every 7 days, and then I will switch to every 10 days when he gets bigger.

I feed every Thursday.

I feed mine once every 3 weeks.

Definetly on a Schedule !

Please explain how/why you feed Every week ? :confused:

Harry

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Originally Posted by Old Sloppy

I feed mine once every 3 weeks.

Definetly on a Schedule !

Please explain how/why you feed Every week ? :confused:

Harry

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How do we feed weekly?

Open the tub and drop rat :snake: goes nom nom nom.

Why feed weekly or more often?

Because they are hungry and enjoy eating weekly, and it's easier to keep them eating consistently.

Smaller snakes I feed 10% mass method and on a 4/7 days schedule. Adults I feed light meals to often 3-7% with a 7 day frequency. Like Jerry it seems easier to keep them eating than a long gap and bigger meals.

I have also looked a study that suggested that a period of no food followed by a large meal was not as efficient for the snake the digestive system during fasts drops and goes in to a sort of stand by mode, with food it comes back up this takes a period of time ranging from a few hours to a day. The digestive system is not running as efficiently during this build up so there is less nutrition pulled from the prey and more energy is expended. It just seemed logical to use smaller meals and more often and not allow dormancy.

up to 300ish grams they get fed on a 3day/4day schedule
everyone else is offered on fridays.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

up to 300ish grams they get fed on a 3day/4day schedule
everyone else is offered on fridays.

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:stereo: Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! Oh wait.....is it not okay to quote Rebekah Black?