Size after 2 years?

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

He could for sure do with large adult mice. A nice rule of thumb to go by is to fee 10-15% of the snakes body weight.

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Thank you!! I was afraid to up the size because thier heads are so small but they eat such big mice, yea I'm afraid he'll choke or something.

If it's the best thing to do I'll start him on the adults asap :)

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Originally Posted by rainglow

Thank you!! I was afraid to up the size because thier heads are so small but they eat such big mice, yea I'm afraid he'll choke or something.

If it's the best thing to do I'll start him on the adults asap :)

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Lol they can eat something much bigger than you think! If it is too big, chances are they won't even try to eat it.

Ball pythons can handle small adult mice pretty much right out of the egg. I start my hatchlings on large fuzzy/small pup rats out of the egg, and they are eating adult mice or weanling rats within a couple of months.

I'm pretty new to the Ball world. My 4 month old ball is eating two rat pups
every 5 days right now totalling 34 to 39 grams. I'm just know looking at picking up an 07 pastel male from the same breeder and he is 1100 grams.

Oh my! My BPs must be huge for their age! I got my male in March of 08 (not sure when he hatched) and he weighed 118 grams. He now weighs 1200 grams...and that's after his two-month winter fast! My female was an adoptee I picked up in October of 08. She was supposedly about 16 months old and weighed 700 grams. She now weighs about 1300 grams.

They are both on rats that weigh about 90-100 grams every 14 days. Seems like no one else feeds anything that large on here, but using both the percentage of body weight and girth methods, this is fine for them. The vet says they both have great healthy body conditions. Their eyes are bright and their skin is shiny.

Everyone's right about them being individuals just like people. Some are little, some are big. I have two pomeranians, both female, and the 6-year-old weighs 4 pounds while the 2-year-old weighs 11! She's not fat, just built bigger. Everyone I meet thinks the little one is a "teacup" and I have to explain there's really no such thing :rolleyes:

Sorry...I got carried away :rolleye2: You get the idea :)

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Originally Posted by rainglow

Right now he's feeding on the size right below adult mice (pet store doesn't know the proper size name, but they're around the size of weanlings) I'm thinking about moving Spot up to adult mice but is he big enough yet?
Pictures are here:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...92#post1029592

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it's hard to tell how big he is because I don't know how big your hand is. But YES it appears he is big enough for adult mice. My normal was a little smaller than that and I moved him to adult mice and POW he started growing like crazy(and no I'm not over feeding) mine has always been that way. A quick grower. Oh yea and my snake was hatched on 12-23-08 and i just weighed him today at 200g

I am so crazy!!!! I haven't had him 2 yrs! Only one!! I feel like it's been that long. He's an 08 Feb not 07...oops. Time flies!! So 400 g for a 1yr old male seems to be ok :-) It's wild...he's become part of my family I feel like I've had him for ever :):

Yeah that's not bad for an '08. I have a couple of earlier '08 males that are 650-800g.

Thanks! I knew something was fishy :)

Sometimes there are just small snakes too...my 05 male, my first snake bought at the petstore has been hovering around 1000gs now for what seems like eternity. He usually fasts a couple of months in the winter and then comes out of it eating like a beast in the spring but not really ever growing much.