If she is hungry feed her???

I fed her on Monday, she is about 208 grams. She seems like she is hungry and was thinking about feeding her Friday, 4 days after her last meal. Good or bad????

That's fine. I feed my hatchlings every Monday - Friday - Wednesday until they start to refuse, then it's onto every 7 days.

It really won't hurt her either way. But I tend to indulge hungry hatchlings.

What if they never refuse?

Then I just keep them to the 5 day scedule. It won't hurt them. I stop at small rats no matter how big the snake gets - so I guess that evens it out. My 700 gram Mojave girl still pounds her small rats every 5 days and she's growing like a weed. But my 400 gram female Pinstripe only usually eats every other feeding but is still growing at a decent rate.. They're all different. :)

I agree with everything mentioned so far. You can feed baby ball pythons every four to five days, until they refuse, then go to every seven days.

Sounds great! I'd like to see her grow alittle more until I cut back to 7 days. She is on rat pups now, I think weaned rats would be too big at the moment. She has always eaten every time I feed her, she is such a good eater! I think I will start offering food every four days for the next while and see how it goes. Thanks everyone!

Just offered her a rat pup, 4 days from last feeding and she nailed it! Think I have to up the size of food but think weaned rats are too big, what you think?

I have an 0.1 female pastel who is at 138g who I just upped to small weanlings...she had no problem with those.

Maybe get a crawler, which is right before they are weaned, or if you can find some smaller weaned rats. Either way I don't think the move up in size will be a problem.

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Originally Posted by bsash

Maybe get a crawler, which is right before they are weaned, or if you can find some smaller weaned rats. Either way I don't think the move up in size will be a problem.

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Maybe I will pick up some small weaned rats and try that next feeing. She is eating the pups pretty fast now and they are pretty much same thickness as her biggest part of her body.

You could always try the size in between - rat fuzzies :)

Don't forget that snakes, just like people, are capable of over-feeding to the point of obesity.

It's so easy to indulge snakes that are plain just good eaters, but you'll have a healthier snake that produces clutches (if you ever breed) much more consistently if you have a snake that isn't overfed.

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Don't forget that snakes, just like people, are capable of over-feeding to the point of obesity.

It's so easy to indulge snakes that are plain just good eaters, but you'll have a healthier snake that produces clutches (if you ever breed) much more consistently if you have a snake that isn't overfed.

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Yeah I understand, I'm really don't wantto overfeed but at the same time, want to make sure they aren't underfed. For now I'm feeding my female bp every 4-5 days and my boa every 7 but he's under 400g still so not sure if he needs less days in-between.