My new Blood

Alright I have no experience with a adult blood or borneo. But I do have experience with my adult Bp. Shes 12 years old and feeds on large rats every two -three weeks. I took her to the Vet a month ago since shes getting very mature to have a pysical evaluation on her and the Reptile Vet told me she is healthy, shes at average weight for a Bp of her size and if I keep up what im doing she can live for along time. You know I respect your aspect of the whole feeding rule and it was great have this little debate but I will continue as a keeper and future breeder to keep my method up beacuse its been doing me good for 12 years.

you have to post me up some pics of your bloods. I love bloods and borneos!!

Oh sorry forgot to say JINX JINX all the whole snake living along time bid. :)

Well bloods seem more prone to obesity than ball pythons do.

Anyways there's some pictures of my bloods in my gallery. Nothing terribly recent, but still some nice shots. :)

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Breeders and I say your suppose to feed the snake on the girth of the body.

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Not all breeders, I know Kara (N.E.R.D) does not feed rabbits.

I hear the same thing from newbies all the time when it comes to Ball Pythons, and this is how people end up feeding their Ball Pythons medium to large rats, yet it is a fact that you get better results feeding a small prey suh as a small rat that is 45-55 grams once a week to Ball Pythons.

Again because they can take a large prey wheter they are Ball or Blood does not mean they should or need to.

And again medium rat once every 10 days or so is enough.

Awesome snake!! Good luck with him/her I bet you'll have a blast.

Should be getting mine on Tuesday or Wednesday! (lets pray for me). Can't wait to show you guys pictures you will flip! Truly gorgeous snake.


Why feed a rabbit when you can feed something smaller that your snake will most likley enjoy a lot more!!

Speaking of all this feeding I just fed my borneo a large mouse pre killed and when stricking he got some bark in her mouth and was throwing her head all around the tank trying to get the stuff out. I had a hard time trying to get the bark out but all she was doing was hissing. I finally grabbed her head and she squeezed the helll out my arm but now shes fine.

IM CHANGING SUBSTRATE DONT BUY FOREST FLOOR BEDDING!!!!!

i had mixed forest floor bedding with repti bark. I admit the forest floor bedding gave good humidity but the lil sticks can easy get cought in your snakes mouth. STICKING TO REPTI-BARK no more mixes. THAT WAS THE SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE THANK GOD SHES ALRIGHT

I'm going to have to agree on smaller meals.

Here's my Borneo. She sustains her body weight VERY well on a large - jumbo rat every other week. I know of more than one Borneo/Blood breeder who prefer smaller meals.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../rapture36.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../rapture27.jpg

No need to "powerfeed" these guys, especially once they reach their adult size.

WOW your borneo looks just my baby canela.. I love these animals. Wish you all the best with it.

Are you to take this responsibility :salute:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...le21/blood.jpg

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Originally Posted by crisstyle21

Wow very beautiful. I hope your prepared to start feeding that blood small rabbits. I have a borneo I know what you mean about the aggressiveness when feeding. Those things strike like a gaboon viper. You got lucky having a tame snake. My girl is so mean I have to wear gloves. Shes always hissing real oud. But I love her aggression makes her look like a tuff girl

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I know this is extremely old, but pointing to an animal that is obese due to overfeeding and then saying good luck feeding it rats, is pretty much the entire point. If that animal was properly fed it would never have gotten that big in the first place and required prey that large. that's the whole point of what they're saying is to feed smaller so they don't get disgustingly fat like the animal in that picture. If that animal was fed properly from birth it wouldn't have gotten to the point where it needed something that big. it's all well and good to listen to reptile vets but you have to remember that not every reptile vet is going to be a specialist with you this specific animal you had. My first reptile vet had 20 years of experience and he gave me horrendous advice for my boas. Because he wasn't a specialist with boas. So the vet I have now has 35 years of experience with anacondas and other boas as well as multiple python species. Out of his 80 snakes about 45 of them are boas and only for our on anything bigger than large rats. because they were properly fed from birth. Now if you had given those animals to someone who power feeds or overfeeds, probably most of them would need to be on prey bigger than large. So there may be some exceptions where the animal may need rabbits but generally with bloods if you feed them properly and don't let them get obese you're not going to need rabbits. Which is why they're telling them go with smaller prey. At this point it's been 13 years but still going to weigh in