starving ball

i would stick to feeding once a week, or maybe every 5 days.

And instead of feeding more often, feed 2 or 3 mice during one feeding.

i think BPs respond better if you stick to the same feeding shedule, but increase food size/quantity. They dont respond so well to smaller meals offered more often.

I have a 2010 pied female that is 1800 grams eating mice only.

galaxy note 2

I would offer a small adult mouse twice a week for a few weeks then up it to 2 adult mice twice a week and after a few months of weight gain, then try to switch to rats.

Lots of ways to do it, no one way is right.
Just start her a little slow and work your way up to normal sized meals once or twice a week and she'll recover fine :gj:

I agree with jerry. start off smaller more often until she poops. then start taking it up. I have a female that's over 5000 grams. she ate mice until she was well over 3500 grams. if rats are better than mice. it doesn't do your snake any good if the snake doesn't eat it or eats here and there. I don't feed just one type of rodent. I feed my snakes what they do well on. and my rat eaters don't do any better than my mice eaters or the ones that eat soft furs. feed your snake what it does well on not what you want to feed it. and so far my big girls made the switch to rats on their own. one day they stop eating mice and after a few months I offer a small rat and slam. they been on rats ever since. most likely they didn't see a mouse as a good prey item probably size related. good luck I hope you get her back to a healthy weight before too long. don

I think I will stick to mice once a every 5 days or so. Thank you all for your help. I was afraid I had hurt her by over feeding her but she has kept everything down. I opened her tub to see how she was and she was looking at me like "well wheres the food" :D The hardest thing for me is waiting because she is so thin I want to feed her what she will eat and I know that is bad for her. I am sure those of you who have had skinny snakes understand that.

don't have anything more to contribute to this thread as everyone else has pretty much covered it, just thought i'd chime in because i thought it was funny my bumble bee's name is paris too. lol named her that because she's "blonde" and "ditzy" because of her wobble. she's kinda grown into the name as well being quite the diva (she's still stuck on mice).

Paris got her name because all my snakes do exactly what I ask them NOT to do. So Paris Hilton is a skinny female so I wanted my beautiful pastel to be fat :) I know weird reasoning, but there it is. Also Paris is a beautiful city so I wanted her to grow up to be as beautiful as the city. She has done the latter now just for the former :D She seems to be doing well. She hasn't had a BM yet so am holding my breath till then. She seems active enough.

On a side note my scale died so I can't weigh her :( So I have to get another one.