Best Food for BP's

well according to that cart adult mice have higher calcium value and roughly the same protien n fat values so im gunna have to switch my vote to mice !!

I have to imagine that ASFs provide pretty darn close to a natural diet.

Also, plenty of BPs live over 30 years on common rats.

Mice don't measure up, size-wise, for full grown bps imo

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Originally Posted by nixer

i hate gerbils
when i had them they bite all the time give you tiny litters

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For someone with one or two snakes, smaller litters are better. I had almost none that would bite me but some would fight with the other gerbils. They went first. If no one was fighting I would have to pick some other way.

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

For someone with one or two snakes, smaller litters are better. I had almost none that would bite me but some would fight with the other gerbils. They went first. If no one was fighting I would have to pick some other way.

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ahahaha... i bet that taught the coloney beter!!! lol ... i hope they learned their lesson

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

...Mice don't measure up, size-wise, for full grown bps imo

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If you feed multiples, why not?

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Originally Posted by starmom

why not?

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Why put them through the stress of eating multiple mice in the same sitting when you can feed one rat?

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Originally Posted by Typical_08

Why put them through the stress of eating multiple mice in the same sitting when you can feed one rat?

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Who says it's stressful? ;)

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Originally Posted by Typical_08

Why put them through the stress of eating multiple mice in the same sitting when you can feed one rat?

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Since when is eating stress-inducing??? :weirdface

As I said, am a bit new to this. But from some of the things I have read here, and a few other places, eating two meals in one sitting is stressful to them.

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Originally Posted by Typical_08

As I said, am a bit new to this. But from some of the things I have read here, and a few other places, eating two meals in one sitting is stressful to them.

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Actually, digesting a larger prey item can be more taxing on their system than two smaller ones that equal the same volume - as the two would be less dense than the one.

However, for an animal that is an opportunistic feeder in the wild, I doubt seriously that there's much stress involved in being fed multiple prey on feeding day.

Bottom line - feed what your snake will eat, and what's convenient for you. Don't worry about other people's opinions. If multiple mice work well for you - feed multiple mice. If one rat a week works well for you - feed one rat. :)