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My pastave girl is that way. When I fed them on Monday, I had the plate with her second rat on it and she tried to drag the rat she was already working on, out to where the second was laying. It was cute but I made her eat one at a time. Last night, she got all excited when I went in to do my evening check. I was all worried about having balls because of the feeding issues I'd read about. She's as bad as my corns though and they'll eat anything in any amount if I'd let them. I'll have to post video of my most aggressive feeders. He'll grab my finger when I get him out on feeding day (the corns are fed in separate containers), eventually figure out it's not food, grab and coil the f/t meal, gobble them down, and then grabs my finger again on the way back to his cage. It's ridiculous!
I wouldn't mind the weight gain either though as my pastave put on 125 g. the first month (empty weights). She's on track to beat that this month and she's not fat. I swear she's growing noticeably every week!
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I just got my first Spider Female today, and after long talks with the person i got her from and setting up her enclousure to a T, to mimic where she came from. She ate an Adult mouse for me 2 hours after being out of the shipping box. I have never seen a Ball get so comfortable in there home so quickly, it was like she never had the stress of being shipped. I just could not resist feeding my baby today, seeing as it is her normal feeding day anyways. I can tell she is going to be a big girl!!
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I did an average on part of my collection...I looked at 27 different snakes...everything from babies to adults and did a 6 month average after offering food every week and the average came out to 91 grams per month from June 2011 till Nov 2011...fastest was 1046 grams in 6 months from a Spider female and 144 grams in 6 months from an breeder Albino male...guess he likes to watch his figure.
Feeding to much to any snake too fast can cause prolapse because they cant properly digest there food and can shorten their life span...their metabolism needs time to settle between meals...no one likes a fat snake with a small head....
Travis
Lair of Dragons
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Re: Gluttonous snakes
All my BP's have gone through their "pig out" stages, but it never lasts. I figure they know best. :P
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Re: Gluttonous snakes
yep both of my cinnamons will devour anything i stick in their tubs. including fingers and hands lol. on the other hand both of my pinstripes only eat when ever the heck the want. and its never on a schedule that i want them to. i'd deffinitly give them a couple extra days to digest. I never feed consecutive days. but everyother on ones im trying to get some size on. but i give 5 days off after 5 times of every other. idk if its right but it works for me. still fairly new to balls.
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