When to feed FUZZY RATS

Everyone's opinion is welcome of course! to him his own! I agree with supervising, but one way isnt the way for another all the time...as long as YOUR snake/snakes are healthy and doing well then, well, as i say...and they do to....the proof is in the pudding boyz and girlz! LOL

Just an update...

I got with a local rat breeder here near me...surprised just how many there are! LOL and got a rat pup...little fuzzy one...let it sit outside the enclosure for about 30 minutes and then put it in with the tongs...at first nothing, then I dangled it in front of the hide, and still nothing...so, I just dropped it in and watched closely....still no movement from the hide. I pulled out the water bowl and the climb and put down a paper towel before I dropped it in...I then decided to turn the day lamp off and cover the tank just enough to make it dark in the area where the snake and the fuzzy rat was....sure enough here it come out! little head wobble lol and WHHHHAM! feeding time! The snake got wrapped up in the paper towel with the fuzzy so I had to pull the towel away a little bit...finally snake let off and started to drag the fuzzy toward it's hide...it ate ass first...which this wasnt very large feeder so should be ok...

This was the first feeding with me and it took live and a rat at that! very excited....i think this is going to be a very good feeding response kind of snake, and a happy one! Thats all i could ask for i guess was a perfect shed and taking to live food that it didnt get before all in 9 days!

Thanks all!

You will agree with supervising until you have like 30+ snakes :P

Lmao! I bet!! Lol

It's a huge pain sometimes to switch to F/T but I really like it. Congrats on getting your snake to eat!

Don't overthink the feeding thing. Feed it mouse sized rats till it's about as big around as a paper towel tube at the thick part and then switch to small rats for life. Feed it once a week or so. This is especially true (don't overthink) if the snake is just a pet. People obsess over prey size and frequency because they're trying to find the fastest way to get the snake big. It's still up in the air whether or not that is bad for the snake in any way.

Sounds like you got a lot of good help! :D I enjoyed a lot of these posts, they helped me learn a lot about my own snake, I also have only had my snake for a week, fed it a f/t yesterday and got a funny pic cuz she wrapped around her own head!

I was honestly not sure of weather or not you could feed a bp multiple meals or not but this helped clear that up. I was worried I wouldn't be able to hold her for a week because she's big and her previous owners were only feeding her fuzzy mice like every 2-3 weeks even though she's about 2" around. I was thinking I'd be feeding her like once every 3-4 days in order to keep her from getting cranky until I can get her some bigger mice.

Thanks for asking all those questions it helped answer a lot I haven't asked yet! I didn't want to sound like a half baked owner who jumped the gun on getting the snake, but the previous owners were friends and trying to sell it cuz they couldn't afford to feed it any more, but I've been reading on snakes every day for 3-5 hrs for a week trying to learn as much as possible, lolz!

If you dont have any pics up of your snake yet you need to get some! I'd love to see how its doing after going through your thread!

P.S. Sorry if I sound like a stalker, I just wanted to let you and your thread fellows know that I am thankful for the questions asked and answered.