Scientific approach to feeding?

I have a couple of big girls over 3000 grams, and a small rat would be an inadequate snack for them, lol. They eat large rats. Sometimes the 3500 gram girl even gets a jumbo. Have they gone on any mysterious fasts, as a result? nope.

My other adults all get medium rats. Everything over 1000 grams gets medium rats, actually.

Granted, they are breeding snakes. Pet snakes should probably be fed less often.

This is the weight chart I use. Names alone can be confusing.

Pinkies____________3-8g
Fuzzies___________9-19g
Pups_____________20-29g
Weanlings________30-44g
Small____________45-84g
Medium (small)__85-125g
Medium (large)_126-174g
Large__________175-274g
Jumbo__________275-374g
Colossal_______375-474g
Mammoth________475-600g
Monster_________over 600g

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

If you have a 2,000gram snake then 10% would be a 200 gram rat. If youre saying you wouldnt do that then when should the 10-15% feeding regimen be stopped? (im not calling you out slim, this is more of a general question for anyone)...

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I hear what you're saying, and I understand the confusion. At some point a long time ago, I got lazy and quit adding that the 10-15% rule of thumb really only applies to growing juvenile BPs, when I was responding to the "How Much Do I Feed" threads. I just figured that by the time you'd been around BPs long enough to have raised one to adulthood, you would know your animal well enough to know how much to feed it.

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Originally Posted by Annarose15

The reason everyone sees this "rule" posted so often on this site (IMO) is that the people who are usually asking what to feed their BPs just bought a hatchling from a pet store, show, etc. - Not a full-grown adult.

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Or in other words, this :number1:

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Originally Posted by coldbloodaddict

You need to come by my place then!!!

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I would love to come by your place sometime!!! I'm sure you don't remember, but I purchased a little Mojo male from you at the 2009 Charlotte Repticon, for my GF. Named him Cupid since it was Valentine's weekend. I no longer have that GF, but she still has the snake and he's still a hot one. I've always been an admirer of your BPs, and hope to own one myself someday.