Next size up feeder from rat pups?

When your ball python becomes too big for rat pups, what is the next size up feeder that you guys generally move your snakes to? Do you move them to crawler rats? Or just move them straight up to weaned rats? Thanks for your help!!

I moved mine straight to weaned, a good rule of thumb is to find the biggest girth point on your BP and feed something approx that big around! :)

pups to crawlers to weaned to smalls to mediums

Straight to weaned here usually :)

I always go by weight and have made a little chart to help with that :)

MICE

Sm. Pink 1-2 grams
Lg. Pink 2-4 grams
Peach Fuzz 4-6 grams
Fuzzies 5-8 grams
Hoppers 8-12 grams
Sm. Mice 11-16 grams
Med. Mice 15-24 grams
Lg. Mice 24-28 grams
XLg. Mice 30 grams+

Rats:
Rat Sm. Pink 3-8 grams
Rat Lg. Pink 5-12 grams
Rat Fuzzies 10-20 grams
Rat Pup 20-30 grams
Rat Wean 30-45 grams
Rat Sm. 40-80 grams
Rat Med. 80-150 grams
Rat Lg. 140-200 grams
Rat XLg. 190-250 grams

Hope this helps ;)

Thanks everyone for your responses! This really helps me out :)

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

pups to crawlers to weaned to smalls to mediums

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What's a crawler? Everything I've seen has rats going from pups to weans.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/16/uruhu9y4.jpg crawlers these are about eleven days old eyes still closed only way they move is crawling around its kinda cute to watch shortly after this stage they'll start walking

whats the difference between mice and rats cause petland only sell two types mice and rats thats it and im new to this looking to buy a 3rd snake being that my brother in law stole my other two that i had

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Originally Posted by carlson

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/16/uruhu9y4.jpg crawlers these are about eleven days old eyes still closed only way they move is crawling around its kinda cute to watch shortly after this stage they'll start walking

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I would put crawlers under pups by size/age. I call it a fuzzy.

Pinky
Fuzzy
Pup
Weanling
Small
Medium
Large

The mouse equivalent to Pup is Hopper.

i just go straight to weaned

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

I would put crawlers under pups by size/age. I call it a fuzzy.

Pinky
Fuzzy
Pup
Weanling
Small
Medium
Large

The mouse equivalent to Pup is Hopper.

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well i dont think pet land or any other stores where i live at sale those i was gonna try n breed my own but my wife dont think its a good idea!

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

I would put crawlers under pups by size/age. I call it a fuzzy.

Pinky
Fuzzy
Pup
Weanling
Small
Medium
Large

The mouse equivalent to Pup is Hopper.

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Ya I think of them as fuzzies too but I know people who call them crawlers too so I thought that's what he ment when saying crawlers