How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

Hello,

Did you face problems with over-feeding? What happened? Did they stop to eat for a long time? Problem with breeding?
I have heard that obese ball pythons are too fat to breed, females won't ovulate. Did you experiment it?
We also see a lot of big mamas, huge females (usually normal females, I don't know why, because morphs aren't smaller)

What is the fastest grow you got? Usually, it takes 2 to 3 years for a female before to reproduce.
But I guess some may breed at 18 months. As said Stefan Broghammer in his book, in the wild, there are only gravid female, or yearlings. If it took 3 years, we should meet intermediate sizes in the wild.

Males can grow fast too. I have a GHI male that weights 65 grammes when I bought him 2 weeks ago. He's a great eater. He jumps on it. I feed him every 4 days with hoppers. I am wondering what may happen if I give him as much food he wants, let's say every 2 days. Did some of you ever tried this?

I think it is not a good way to proceed. If long time breeders respect that schedule, there should be a reason. They aren't stupid
Pythons teach you patience.
But I am interested by theses points. Usually, we hear a lot about picky eaters not huge eaters.

Thanks for your replies.

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Originally Posted by Haddady's RnR

Every 2 days?

Every 3-5 days?

Every 7 days?

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And by baby I mean 100g-300g

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We have a baby lesser we just got and she's eating f/t hoppers every 5days.

100-300g is once every 7 days for me.

I'm feeding my 90 gram bp every 5 days.


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I feed all my BPs regardless of weight every 7 days. I'm not in a hurry and it's probably healthier too.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

I feed all my BPs regardless of weight every 7 days. I'm not in a hurry and it's probably healthier too.

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I was doing this, but then he started to beg for food...


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Originally Posted by LivingwithBalls

I was doing this, but then he started to beg for food...


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That's usually my cue to up the food.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

That's usually my cue to up the food.

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Hehe yes I did that first, but he still insisted he was starving.


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Originally Posted by LivingwithBalls

Hehe yes I did that first, but he still insisted he was starving.


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Hey, if they want to eat, you gotta feed 'em.

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Originally Posted by BmoreBalls

We have a baby lesser we just got and she's eating f/t hoppers every 5days.

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2 years later....