Re: How to tell if you have a sub Saharan ball python?
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Lizardlicks
An adult ball python can thrive quite well on a small rat once a week for the rest of it's life.
I am feeding my sub-adult BP a small rat or large rat pup every two weeks. He's about four years old and still growing. I'm in no hurry to grow him out.
OP, what morph are your snakes? They look normal... are they hets?? It can be very hard to find homes for normal babies... I got my normal from a rescue. People dump them all the time. :-(
Re: How to tell if you have a sub Saharan ball python?
I believe op said they were het albino. So a chance for albino babies, but still likely to throw more normals as well.
Re: How to tell if you have a sub Saharan ball python?
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Lizardlicks
No I haven't because I'm growing my snakes out slowly. Heck I know for a fact that if I let Strudel go as hard as she wanted on her rats she'd hit breeding size in another couple of months, the kid is a garbage disposal, but that isn't healthy for her. However, you can literally google "gravid ball python" and "obese ball python" and get tons of examples of both. I have looked at both for nearly two years, long before I even got my first snake because I want to do things right the first time. Also, if you're actually feeding your girl on medium rats, she should be going closer to every two weeks, not every week. An adult ball python can thrive quite well on a small rat once a week for the rest of it's life.
If you're having trouble on getting your husbandry to a point where it's consistent and your snakes are having that bad of shedding issues, you should be focused on fixing that, not producing more snakes. Everyone wants to jump into the breeding side super fast, but you need to take the time to be a keeper first, and a breeder second.
Just stop reply before I loose on yoy I don't care your opinion anymore when all u have to say about my animal is it's fat and over fed when I feed them 1 time a weed something that doesn't strech out its perfect size for them and just because she's close to laying eggs doesn't make her obese she doesn't even lock with the male anymore and when you havent had your first clutch yet so I don't need your opinions when all snakes are different and do different things because I can't stand my care being questioned when you don't know what and when I fed her and how she has grown over the 2 years of owning her
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Ok don't reply if you have nothing nice to say about my snakes weight I wasn't asking about that I was asking if she is a volta I guess you want to just focus on 1 little detail like being fat I guess you all point out fat people in public too
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Just soo done with this all you guys get way off topic
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Like for 1 she eats medium rats 1 time a week when she should have been eat large and now that she is on large she should be on xl because larges don't do anything to her she still looks like she didn't eat and like I said before if I streched her out she would be almost as long as me and doesn't look fat at all but I guess u all think being full of eggs is fat so I guess any pregnant lady is fat? That's how you all are thinking and that's wrong
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So any other replys about her being fat I will not be nice because I don't go around saying anything about everybody else's snakes because I'm not that kind of person to just think that somethings not right from a picture? Because you all know how pictures can be if u believe every picture then u clearly believe the light green and purple ball pythons
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Like and she has over 10 eggs in her so I know she isn't fat sooooooooooooooo I'm just done with this I wanted to know about being volta
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