What do you feed your ball pythons?

I have to say rats are better also. After getting back into breeding them for my reptiles I am really going to try and move mostly to rats. I'm at just one pair right now and the female is about to burst again already..perfect! I am down to two daughters from the last litter and will keep one or both as another breeder and hopefully move away from mice or at least down to just a pair if I am still needing pinkies.

I voted for both mice & rats...and depending on weanling rat availability (very limited) I feed rats, as I'll be moving exclusively to rats once he can take a small adult rat. But when the weanlings aren't available, I feed two adult mice. Is there anything wrong/bad with flip/flopping foods? He's taken both mice and rats veraciously so there doesn't seem to be a preference for the snake :) Although... when I feed only 1 weanling rat, he seems very upset with me that he didn't get his "second mouse".

Rats all the way. I hate the mere smell of a mouse, now that I am used to feeding/breeding rats.

I would like to know as here in Finland its easier to get mice, can you let me know how many mice an adult female might eat a week.

thanks

steve

email me on stevoe@hotmail.com

Sigh...... Mine is a picky cuss and will only eat mice.

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Originally Posted by jotay

Sigh...... Mine is a picky cuss and will only eat mice.

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there is nothing wrong with that...as long as they are eating ;)

Hi, I am new here. My son talked me into a ball python three weeks ago and I fell in love. He eats really well and I handle him almost every day. He shows all the signs of adjusting well. I am looking forward to getting at least 1-2 more.


He has grown to 45 inches long (measured by positioning a string along his spine and then measuring the string) and he seems to still be growing. We bought him as a sub-adult at the local exotic pet shop. DD eats two small rats per week, is that too much?

Two small rats sounds fine to me. Alot of people will just feed 1 small rat year round to try to prevent the ball python from fasting. As a keeper that decision is up to you. Either way the bp will do just fine.

I know how the 'string method' of measuring length can be a pain so if you have a camera feel free to use this snake measuring program....it is alot easier.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules....viewfile&id=28

as said above u do what works no way is any better than any other thee a lot of variables involved and wahts important is that ur herp is happy

Hey, I just measured, DD is 44 inches.