Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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Originally Posted by
Zincubus
Hopefully we are talking rats here and not fuzzy mice ?? ....
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Originally Posted by
indygunnerguy
... I was going to try and use them up first before buying rats...
Pretty safe bet we're talking about mice...:confusd: But never hurts to make sure...
Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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Originally Posted by
indygunnerguy
So according to the chart, Gargamel should be eating approximately 100 g per feeding. Since I have frozen fuzzies, I was going to try and use them up first before buying rats. That being said, I should feed him more than one at a time. How long betwee&n fuzzies should I wait to offer another?
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Based on the pic of your snake https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...-Meet-Gargamel!! what is highlighted is physically IMPOSSIBLE, even a large adult Male would not need a 100 gram rat, 85 at most.
Your snake at this time need a prey no bigger than it's girth size.
Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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Deborah
Based on the pic of your snake
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...-Meet-Gargamel!! what is highlighted is physically IMPOSSIBLE, even a large adult Male would not need a 100 gram rat, 85 at most.
Your snake at this time need a prey no bigger than it's girth size.
Wow. Yeah. I second that. I think you did something wrong in your math to come up with 100g for that little cutie. How much does he weight? As a helpful idea some recommend 10 - 15% of body weight of the snake. So take the weight of snake X .10 and weight of snake X .15 and feed something weighting in that vicinity. Also going by the girth as Deborah states. Your snake would have to be 1000g or so to need a meal that size.
Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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Bogertophis
Pretty safe bet we're talking about mice...:confusd: But never hurts to make sure...
Yeah they are fuzzy mice.
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Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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gunkle
Wow. Yeah. I second that. I think you did something wrong in your math to come up with 100g for that little cutie. How much does he weight? As a helpful idea some recommend 10 - 15% of body weight of the snake. So take the weight of snake X .10 and weight of snake X .15 and feed something weighting in that vicinity. Also going by the girth as Deborah states. Your snake would have to be 1000g or so to need a meal that size.
Yes sorry it is 10-16 g. I was using my phone and it auto-corrected to 100. This is the chart I was referring to...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...020f87ab3b.jpg
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I’ve never had very young Royals but always thought that they started out on small mice and never anything smaller ??
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Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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Zincubus
I’ve never had very young Royals but always thought that they started out on small mice and never anything smaller ??
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Yeah I found that out about a week after I bought him. This is my first and I didn't know any better lol. I bought this from a pet store and that's what they said they've been feeding him. I've learned a lot from the forum in the last couple of weeks that's for sure!
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Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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indygunnerguy
Yeah I found that out about a week after I bought him. This is my first and I didn't know any better lol. I bought this from a pet store and that's what they said they've been feeding him. I've learned a lot from the forum in the last couple of weeks that's for sure!
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That's why we're here...pet stores often under-feed their snakes: it saves them $ but mostly they don't want the snakes out-growing the little display cages they have
them in...and they also know most buyers prefer to buy young (small) snakes, just like puppies & kittens are typically considered cuter, versus adult dogs & cats.
FYI- ball pythons have fairly big heads & relatively wide bodies, so hopper mice (small, eyes open, just weaned) are the appropriate size prey even for hatchling BPs.
Unless you can get them to take comparably-sized rat fuzzies (eyes closed). The only hitch with hopper mice is that with eyes open, they may bite back...and many
snakes won't start off feeding on f/t, in which case fuzzies (eyes closed, either rats or mice) are the safer choice. Hopper mice (live) can be also quite active, & many
BPs may hesitate to take them, especially for a first feeding, but you never know. Their instincts are to eat, but in the wild they presumably don't have humans hanging
about watching & making them nervous either.
Re: Feeding More Than One Fuzzy
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Bogertophis
That's why we're here...pet stores often under-feed their snakes: it saves them $ but mostly they don't want the snakes out-growing the little display cages they have
them in...and they also know most buyers prefer to buy young (small) snakes, just like puppies & kittens are typically considered cuter, versus adult dogs & cats.
FYI- ball pythons have fairly big heads & relatively wide bodies, so hopper mice (small, eyes open, just weaned) are the appropriate size prey even for hatchling BPs.
Unless you can get them to take comparably-sized rat fuzzies (eyes closed). The only hitch with hopper mice is that with eyes open, they may bite back...and many
snakes won't start off feeding on f/t, in which case fuzzies (eyes closed, either rats or mice) are the safer choice. Hopper mice (live) can be also quite active, & many
BPs may hesitate to take them, especially for a first feeding, but you never know. Their instincts are to eat, but in the wild they presumably don't have humans hanging
about watching & making them nervous either.
Thankfully it doesn't look like he's malnurished. I'm going to try to feed him two f/t mouse fuzzies tonight and see how it goes [emoji1694]
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