It's enough to make a person scream.

So due to unexpected expenses, one being my back tire on my truck exploding while driving. I have spent all of my money now no big deal cuz I don't need much and got everything I need but sadly my bp has to miss her feeding tonight cuz of it. Now I know most people have balls that go off feed for months but she's only refused once in the two years I've had her so I feel bad that I can't get any mice, she just started eatting two adult mice every week so I screwed up on my plaining and have no frozen (had the empty bag in there fooling me of coarse.) and no live ones to feed her so do you all think that since last Monday she ate two shell be ok for another week? Just trying to make myself feel a lil better bout the situation I guess haha anyone else had life grab ahold of their wallet and drain it. Sorry for the mini rant I tried too keep it short just noone else wants to listen to my problem feeding my ball :( haha so ive come to rant to my favorite community :) thanks for bearing with me everyone.

yeah your ball will be fine skipping a meal thats what i like about owning snakes

You've had her for 2 years and she's just now starting to eat 2 adult mice? Sounds a little too small to me but I tend to feed my guys a generous amount of food

2 mice? My 2 month old hatchling was feeding on 35-40 gram rats o.o
She gobbles up a 30 gram rat pup and was still hungry
I guess my snake is a piggie

Yes, she will be fine if she needs to wait. Unlike a dog or cat, she won't starve in that amount of time. Although she might be especially enthusiastic about her next feeding time.

It does seem odd to me at two years she has only just now begun to eat two mice in one feeding. Was she a rescue perhaps? Or are you yet another victim of bad pet shop misinformation? Have you considered trying to feed her rats? If so, is there a reason why you couldn't ? Lack of supply maybe? I'd be very interested to find out more about her. Do you think you could share her weight and length with us? Maybe a picture or two?

I dislike passing judgement on cases like this, since if you are worried about missing her feeding for a week, it's obvious you care about her and are doing what you think is right by her. Perhaps with a little help, we can find a way to benefit you both when it comes to her feeding.

Gale

Ya I wasn't sure how much to feed her for the longest time and there's only a petco around here and they said one adult mouse every time I asked them, after getting more active on here I learned I should be feeding her more so I wanna say two months ago I started two per week. I'm in process of beginning to breed rats so ill switch her to them.

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It's a guess she's two years old ive had her for about a year and a half and petco said she was six months old. I admit lack of knowledge on my part, I just assumed listen to petco they know :(

A snake that size would be eating small rats in my collection... as a general rule of thumb, feed a prey item that has a width at the hips as the snake's biggest point of width.

Once my rats start making babies she will be on small rats, the only store to get feeders at around here doesn't have small enough rats so I've been stuck getting mice.

She is pretty.. And i hope this help.
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I follow this guide. And feed my snakes once a week. Every monday they eat. :)

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Aww, she may be a wee bit thin, but she's far from being starved thin.

You aren't the first person to be the victim of bad pet shop information. The important thing now is that you are trying to change things. Whatever you decide to do, don't go crazy and try and feed her a jumbo rat to make up for it. :P

Just take your time, start out with something a little bit bigger than she is used to, and go from there. Or, if rats are out of your reach at the moment, just offer her the two mice, or even three if she's interested.

Gale

Thank you I'm doing my best to give her a good home :) I only wanna offer best care to all my animals. I started figuring petco didn't know anything when they tried telling me my carpet would prefer mice over rats 😳 that was back when I first got her (she an adult rescuse that doesn't like eatting.) but soon ill have rats I'm waitin for my starter four to get busy lol. Thank you for everyone's responses knowledge is always useful :) an im gonna keep up the two and trying a third until my rats are ready give her some more weight. I gotta buy a scale once I have some money an can order one petco charges an arm and a leg for there's and it looks cheap.

Hit up your local Wal-Mart. Go to the kitchen isle. Buy the digital kitchen scale. It costs around $15, and will weigh up to 11 pound usually.

Gale

K next time I'm at wall Mart ill go check that out just waiting for money to come in so sick of living pay check to pay check. One day ill be done with college and a fire man I can't wait to have a good payin job.

I feed rats from the first feeding if they will except!

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I feed rats from the first feeding if they will except!

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I would have if I could, I listened to petco about feeding them mice till I learned rats are better option and now my problem is is there is noone that sells small enough rats by me. Petco sells rats for feeders but they never oder small enough ones for a bp their all larges or xtra larges so I picked up a female and a male from up north to start breeding them so i have rats for my ball and rats for my carpet. The carpet eats jumbos so I'm able to buy them from petco that's the normal sized live rats they have. And sadly since she refused to eat this past month i still have a hooded male from them that im naming lucky and will be getting another female and upping my breeding :) Hope that made sense sounded like I was rambling a bit too myself
The carpet gets offered a rat once a week but she's been refusing it for a month now she's my newish snake and has only ate twice for me two jumbos, been a month since last ate and had her for probably two months now