Can everybody chime in with what your feeding your BP and it's weight per gram?

Well, it's a great time to ask, since I just got scale as a Christmas present :D
Just so happens that I weighed everything out, haha.

(name/weight/feeder weight/every "x" days)

Charlie - 126g - ~14g hopper - 3-4 (soooo close to moving up!)
Cleu - ~680 (not as recent) - 71g sml. rat - 4 (she's also really close to moving up!)
Chester - 1104g empty - 176g med. rat - 7
Lelu - 1648g empty - 176g med. rat - 7 (normally on large rats, but since shes breeding and still eating, I feed her a little smaller)

My biggest snake is about 2000g and she gets an ~85-90g rat every 10 days or so.

Smallest snake is 550g and she gets an ~30g mouse every 5-6 days.

A question for "Starmom" did you have a hard time switching your snake from mice to rats?? I am going to attempt this at the next feeding and I am very uneasy about it - worried I will send her into a fast or something.

Any advise on this.

Thank you.

Hahahaha!!! Wish I could get my hypo to make the switch!!! :P

The only one who I had to switch was my pastel and I just employed tough love :D

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Yes. One 40 gram rat per week is all your snake needs.

-adam

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40grams rat/week for a 1300gams.....Thats less then 5% of its body weight.... So its ok to feed ball pythons 5% of their body weight throught their whole life?

i dont see why you guys are weighing the rats. the point of this should be to not feed a rat bigger than the girth of your snake.

I follow pretty much what Adam does. Once a week- small rats, the bigger snakes sometimes get two rats instead of one. Since I switched to this feeding routine, I do not have any snake fasting as I did before. For years I fed my oldest ever 14 days or so and he would get a med-large rat. He would fast for months at a time, now he doesn't.
Also, since I feed live, I feel safer with the smaller rats. Less likely that the snakes will get hurt.

Stan is just about 500 grams and is eating 35-40gram mice. I went a little higher than that and he went off feed for several weeks... so I went back down and he eats like clock work.

Neemo is only 500gr he's 4 y/o (his previous owner fed him monthly 1 sm mouse) I started giving him 1 sm rat every 5-7 days and he's doing well with that.

Phoebe 650gr is 1.5 yrs old and she gets a bigger smaller rat every 5-7 days

6 mo. pastel 290gr that gets 1 sm-med mouse every 5-7 days

So far this is working for us none have gone off feed