What would you do?

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Originally Posted by worldcupkeeper

I know but to me she doesnt look like shes filled back out, shes still got folds in her skin from when she laid the eggs. She eats like carzy thought, 2 small rats a week.

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If she's a good 3000 grams then i'd go ahead and feed her 2 medium or large rats a week...

My girls 2500grams and she slamming 2 large rats a week without any hesitation or problems... I feed my 335 gram male pastel 1 small rat a week...

I'd bump her up to 2 large rats a sitting and breed her. next year though I'd hold off on her and let her attain her weight and recover. But she should be fine. What would you be breeding her to anyways? just wondering...

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

I'd bump her up to 2 large rats a sitting and breed her. next year though I'd hold off on her and let her attain her weight and recover. But she should be fine. What would you be breeding her to anyways? just wondering...

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I dont feed any of mine anything bigger than a small rat, its just not about her weight, its also about her body size, to me shes just not "ready" yet.

If I hold off until next year she will be bred by a pastel.

Well I understand where your coming from with the small rat thing. I'd atleast bump up from 2 rats to maybe 3 or 4. A healthy ball python can suprise you by how much it can eat without regurge or problems. i'm not telling everybody to just start feeding the ish out of they're snakes but since your wanting to breed her and put some more weight on her you COULD do it.

My question is what are you wanting to breed her with this year? What's got you teeter toddering between wether to breed her or not this year?...besides the way she looks...

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

Well I understand where your coming from with the small rat thing. I'd atleast bump up from 2 rats to maybe 3 or 4. A healthy ball python can suprise you by how much it can eat without regurge or problems. i'm not telling everybody to just start feeding the ish out of they're snakes but since your wanting to breed her and put some more weight on her you COULD do it.

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Umm.... a large rat is at least 200 grams, lets say 250ish avg

you are feeding your 2500 gram female 500 grams of food a week?

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Originally Posted by djslurp1200

Well I understand where your coming from with the small rat thing. I'd atleast bump up from 2 rats to maybe 3 or 4. A healthy ball python can suprise you by how much it can eat without regurge or problems. i'm not telling everybody to just start feeding the ish out of they're snakes but since your wanting to breed her and put some more weight on her you COULD do it.

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That is ENTIRELY TOO MUCH food. A small rat per week.

The most food she gets a week is 2 small rats and thats it.

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Originally Posted by worldcupkeeper

The most food she gets a week is 2 small rats and thats it.

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Aric,

You are doing the right thing. Slow and steady wins the race. Give her the time she needs to get back to fighting weight. She will get there. Best of luck!

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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake

Umm.... a large rat is at least 200 grams, lets say 250ish avg

you are feeding your 2500 gram female 500 grams of food a week?

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I've never weighed the rats myself but... I've been doing it for the last week and a half. After another couple weeks I'll go ahead and switch it back down to 1. but yeah that's what i'm feeding it at the moment. I just wanted to kick it up a notch for just a month to try to get her ready to breed. She obviously won't eat for a while once she becomes gravid so I want to get her not obese but a little bit of a build to her. My breeder friend whom I get all my feeders from and stuff said that she honostly could still put on a little more weight so I figured 2 or 3 weeks of that should be fine. Then I'll go back to just 1 rat...