How many mice?

where is the rats in that equation? ;)

I feed mostly rats but I do on occasion feed the smaller balls mice. But even my smaller ones, my spider and my pastel (both around 100g) can and do take either a few day old rat pup or a medium mouse easy. Of course I kind of got lucky with my balls, none of them except my biggest girl are picky at all, they'll eat live f/t p/k whatever I throw at them lol.

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Originally Posted by simplechamp

Dragoon, I had the same exact problem. I went to a local pet store, they were out of adult mice, so I asked them to order me 10 and they asked me to pay ahead of time since they had problems with people bailing out on orders. Big mistake.

I go a few days later to pick them up and the guy hands me a bag of hoppers. I said "Oh there must have been a mistake I ordered adults, not hoppers." and he says "These are adults." I was so mad, they said no money back, no replacements, nothing.

The worst part is when I said "Do you care that you are losing a customer because of this?" the guy says "We don't make money on the mice anyways. Have a nice day"

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Poor stuff ~ :rolleye2:

There wasn't an option i could select which matched my feeding schedule. I feed hatchlings to jouviniles every 4 days and adults every 7 days. They normally only get one mouse or rat depending on the size of the feeder and what i have in my freezer.

We feed our girl 1-2 big fat mice once every week, just depends on what she will take. I feel so bad for all the troubles you guys have with the pet stores. when someone askes to buy feeders from me they get big fat mice/rats and I would never charge $3 for a hopper, maby that much for a full sized male rat.

When I was feeding mice, I fed any of my snakes that were 400 grams and up, two adult mice every 7 days.

Assuming your snake at 8 months is at least that much weight, then I voted for 2 mice a week.

My current babies that are mousers that I haven't converted to rats yet are getting one small or medium mouse every 5 days - depending on the snake's size.

That snake should be eating 1 or 2 rat pups a week easy. I try to not feed my ball pythons mice at all and normally start them on rats right away.

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Originally Posted by ApexPredator

I try to not feed my ball pythons mice at all and normally start them on rats right away.

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Me as well, but to a non-feeding hatchling, a nice jumpy hopper mouse is very hard to resist, and often gets them going. :)

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

The problem with this topic is that it could be confusing.
An adult could easily down 3 mice in ONE sitting but giving it 3 mice throughout the week is not healthy or wise.

Feeding on a 5 day schedule rather than a 7 day schedule for younger bps is a good idea as well.

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I will completely disagree. Snakes are hunters of opportunity and would eat daily in the wild if hungry and food was found.

To expand on this topic, you would be better off getting ANY bp on rats of appropriate size as young as possible.
That said, there are some that just like mice.
If that is the case, an adult female can easily take down over a dozen mice in one night if they are hungry.
And i'm not talking a 3 yr old... I'm talking a REAL adult.