How do you feed your BPs?

Dr. Del-

Perhaps one of the admin could add a couple of other options- that's all I could think of!

Hi,


I added two more options for you.

Are they ok or would you like anything else added/changed?


dr del

I feed everyone in there encloser, F/T. Adam, I wounder, if you had all of your balls on f/t...where would you thaw them out? LOL

I feed Nagini in a separate enclosure - a kritter keeper we call 'The Cafe', and I feed her live hoppers. I do this only because her enclosure has a lot of branches and fake leaves and the one time I tried feeding in there, the hopper (on tongs by the tail) kept grabbing everything it could and that scared the snake. Once she's out in her cafe, she knows it's time for food. After she's done swallowing (and I'm done cleaning her tank) I carefully remove her hide and slide her very slowly back into her home straight from the box.
I'm still debating on whether I'll prekill or keep em live once she's on bigger mice.

I feed in their tubs, live as well.

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Originally Posted by stangs13

I feed everyone in there encloser, F/T. Adam, I wounder, if you had all of your balls on f/t...where would you thaw them out? LOL

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in the "thawing room" of course. ;)

-adam

I think that pretty much covers all the bases, Dr. Del!! :)

Can anyone else think of any methods we didn't cover?

All 21 eat live, 20 of them eat in their home enclosures, only the 1 milksnake eats in a seperate tub as her home is a bit too "busy".

All of mine are fed live in their enclosures. We tried feeding our balls in a separate tub when we only had a few because we had heard that was better for them. We switched for 2 reasons: I was always concerned that moving them right after they ate was way too stressful and after you reach a certain # of balls it becomes a nightmare to move them to a separate tub to feed.


I've never had a problem since I switched.

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

500+ ball pythons every week, all live, all in the enclosure ... never a problem. ;)

-adam

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Not as many balls, only 200+, but we do it the same, and never had a problem.