Feeding your ball python

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Originally Posted by sho220

All this weighing the food stuff is ridiculous...talk about overcomplicating things...holy cow...

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Call it whatever the freak you want to, I call it a successful method that has yet to fail me. While your freakin' milage may vary, don't discount the freakin' method. Out :rage:

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Originally Posted by sho220

All this weighing the food stuff is ridiculous...talk about overcomplicating things...holy cow...

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how is it complicated? you weigh the ball python... and get a rodent that is about 15% of the BP's weight (when buying frozen they are sold in weight ranges)

it isn't rocket science.

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Originally Posted by Slim

Call it whatever the freak you want to, I call it a successful method that has yet to fail me. While your freakin' milage may vary, don't discount the freakin' method. Out :rage:

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It is absolutely, positively, without a doubt unnecessary to run out and spend money on a food scale to figure out what size rodent to feed a bp...it's absurd...Over....

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

how is it complicated? you weigh the ball python... and get a rodent that is about 15% of the BP's weight (when buying frozen they are sold in weight ranges)

it isn't rocket science.

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Neither is using the eyeballs in your melon to visually figure it out...it ain't that hard...

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Originally Posted by sho220

It is absolutely, positively, without a doubt unnecessary to run out and spend money on a food scale to figure out what size rodent to feed a bp...it's absurd...Over....

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Originally Posted by sho220

Neither is using the eyeballs in your melon to visually figure it out...it ain't that hard...

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Oh yeah, I forgot, you are prefect...a condition I am not afflicted with. I'll stick to my absurd and unnecessary scale. Some how in my blind ignorance of your melon to eye ball ratio method, it's managed to get me this far :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Slim

Oh yeah, I forgot, you are perfect...a condition I am not afflicted with. I'll stick to my absurd and unnecessary scale. Some how in my blind ignorance of your melon to eye ball ratio method, it's managed to get me this far :rolleyes:

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Do we really need to further confuse newbs by telling them to buy a scale and weigh both the snake and food??? Is it really necessary???? How has anyone managed to feed snakes before digital food scales came along???? Over...

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Originally Posted by sho220

Do we really need to further confuse newbs by telling them to buy a scale and weigh both the snake and food??? Is it really necessary???? How has anyone managed to feed snakes before digital food scales came along???? Over...

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How is taking a simple measurement with a tool that any good snake keeper should have anyway a complication of things?

I can promise you like the sun will come up tomorrow that I will always advise BP keepers, especially newbies, that weighing the prey item is a better method than just winging it and going TLAR (That Looks About Right)...

How can you keep accurate feeding records if you aren't weighing the prey?

It isn't a bad idea to keep an eye on you snakes weight especially if it is on a hunger strike. It is simple and quick. I don't think it is overcomplicating anything. It helps me to know what weight to feed because my eyes are bigger than her stomach by the time I select the live feeder at the shop. I find it easier to know I am getting the right size. Use what works. Est for you. After all it is only $15-20 there are worse things to spend money on.

Do I need to put you two in time out? :rolleyes:

A scale helps, especially when you're new to keeping snakes. Underfeeding is a major issue in this hobby. Do you have to have scale to successfully keep a ball python? No. Do I rely on mine 100% and weigh every meal? Nope, but it helps sometimes and those new to keeping them might not know exactly how big of a meal is best and a scale helps teach them. People also like to keep track of their snake's growth.

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Originally Posted by Slim

How can you keep accurate feeding records if you aren't weighing the prey?

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Like this...
5/17 - SR
5/23 - SR
5/29 - SR
etc...

Do you really weigh every rodent you feed to every snake you have?