Re: should you regularly skip a feeding?
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Originally Posted by rabernet
That didn't come out right, it sounds like I'm challenging you, Adam. And that's not the intention behind the question at all. I was really wondering about "for instances". Thanks! ;)
I'll preface this all with "in my experience" ... but just remember, I am only one guy with a lot of balls ;)
It is my belief and the belief of others in the business/hobby that I have spoken with that ball pythons can and will "fill up" on prey. Eating 52 times a year is just something that they are not designed to do, but they will often keep eating food in anticipation of the food supply "drying up" as it does annually in the region that they have evolved and adapted to living in naturally.
By skipping a meal every now and then, it gives your ball python time to "relax" and process some of the food that they have "saved up" from the prior multiple successive feedings.
I feel that it leads to less fasting, better growth, and and overall more relaxed animal.
Again ... these are just my OPINIONS based on what I do with my own animals ... OPINIONS are like elbows so take em for what they are worth.
-adam
Re: should you regularly skip a feeding?
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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki
I'll preface this all with "in my experience" ... but just remember, I am only one guy with a lot of balls ;)
*Snark* Yeah, I've heard that about you!!! :devilish: :O ;)
