Re: New BP owner question about feeding.
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Originally Posted by
craigafrechette
It's pretty amazing the first time you see them eat a "big" meal. They're amazing animals and easily eat prey item far larger than their heads.
Aside from the feeding chart, some other rules of thumb are: a) feed prey items approximately 10-15% of the snakes weight and b) feed a prey item approx as large around as the snakes widest part. After eating you should be able to notice a subtle lump in their midesection.
Awesome Thank you so much. That is really helpful. He is 77g the last time I weighed him and the small mouse was about 6-7g. So that sounds about right then.
Luckily he has never refused a meal in the 3 weeks we have had him. I just noticed he seemed small and a fuzzy seemed like it was getting too small for him. I switched to a small mouse and he nailed it. I honestly love watching them eat. Crazy how they just expand. His neck is tiny probably 2 8mm yet some how it gets down there. It's my sons snake but he is 10 so guess who does majority of the work me.
He just likes to hold him and feed him. Lol.
Re: New BP owner question about feeding.
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Originally Posted by
Godzilla78
I have yet to see a rodent too large for my ball pythons to eat, and I have fed some VERY large rodents to them. I think the record was hatchling Chuck Norris, eating a small rat 26% of his bodyweight!:O
It was a rejected food item from an adult female, and I jokingly put it in tiny male hatchling Chuck's enclosure. I didn't really think it was possible for him to eat it. He fricking ate it! I mean over a ¼ of his body weight! It was insane. Unfortunately he was mostly out of view, when he stretched his jaws around it. I couldn't; believe it at first.
Pythons are the ultimate monster eaters!
Here is the record champion, Chuck Norris, eating his way to stardom. lol. Look at the size of the rat compared to his head. Here is a male hatchling, under 180 grams eating a small weaned rat, I think it was around 48 grams!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...b/IMG_1178.jpg
Next photo, you can see how large the legs and rear of the rat are compared to Chuck's tiny head.
It always makes me laugh when new Python owners feed a baby mouse and are afraid a larger mouse "might be too big!" :rofl:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...w/IMG_1179.jpg
Hahaha it is crazy how much they can stretch. My son's snak has a neck no bigger then my pinky it is probably a little bit bigger then a pencil, yet it's amazing he got this mouse down it.
New BP owner question about feeding.
that’s insane a small RAT? As a hatchling Damn you’d think they would explode
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