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  • 01-23-2014, 01:05 AM
    Zach Cedor
    Female gained weight unusually fast
    So I bought an adult pastel female on Nov 20 she's was 1756g she has missed one meal since then every week she gets a med-lrg rat she is now 2600g Is this her getting ready for breeding?? I've been pairing her with my spider male no visual Locks yet just seems like a lot to gain in such a short time http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/23/yjy5y9ur.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/23/juzy6esu.jpg

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  • 01-23-2014, 03:04 AM
    Coopers Constrictors
    I would never feed a BP anything bigger than a medium rat. She's probably prepping for breeding. Best of luck! :gj:
  • 01-23-2014, 03:07 AM
    Zach Cedor
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Coopers Constrictors View Post
    I would never feed a BP anything bigger than a medium rat. She's probably prepping for breeding. Best of luck! :gj:

    I thought you were supposed to feed about 10% of their body weight once they get a certain size isn't medium to small

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  • 01-23-2014, 03:10 AM
    Lupe
    My normal male is 2200 grams and eats medium rats once a week and he is still (slowly) gaining weight.
  • 01-23-2014, 03:11 AM
    satomi325
    She's probably prepping for breeding.
    The 10-15% rule is only for hatchlings and juvis.
    I feed my adults smalls. Sometimes a medium for the big girls.
  • 01-23-2014, 04:54 AM
    Zach Cedor
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by satomi325 View Post
    She's probably prepping for breeding.
    The 10-15% rule is only for hatchlings and juvis.
    I feed my adults smalls. Sometimes a medium for the big girls.

    Got it I was under the impression it was just s general rule

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  • 01-23-2014, 05:38 AM
    rafacacho
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Was she underweight when you bought her? Ive seen fast weight gain like that in adults (age) that are underweight.


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  • 01-23-2014, 07:10 AM
    BHReptiles
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Like others have said, you may be feeding her too much. All of my breeders get a small once a week. Anyone over about 2200g gets a medium.
  • 01-23-2014, 07:18 AM
    PitOnTheProwl
    I feed off small, medium and large.
    Yes I do go by weights and have had people harp on me for feeding to large when posting that way, some forget that there are a range to those sizes.
    Then again I also feed till they refuse.
  • 01-23-2014, 07:42 AM
    CD CONSTRICTORS
    I will say 150g/month is about average for here, although not being unheard that 300g+ a month is out of the range of possibilities. An underfed bp will eat like that given the chance. She will probably crap out 200g pretty soon..

    Big, hungry, aggressive females that strike prey within seconds will get a medium rat. The rest get smalls..... sometimes 2 or 3 smalls. Out of ~40 big females there are only 4-5 that are aggressive enough that I will throw in a well fed and watered medium rat. If a medium rat nips your great eating female, watch her go off feed for a month.....

    I have plenty of medium and large breeder rats that I cycle through. I do not feed them off to the collection. They get traded in to the local shop for smalls. Plenty of boa people out there to feed off medium and large rats to.

    I don't mind doing a reconnaissance mission on a small rat that was not taken by a bp, but try taking a scared medium rat out of a V-70 tub with a big pissed off female bp. It can get messy....
  • 01-23-2014, 11:04 AM
    bcr229
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by coreydelong View Post
    Plenty of boa people out there to feed off medium and large rats to.

    Er... I'm a "boa person" but I don't really want to eat the medium or large rats, or even the jumbo retired breeders. My boas get those.

    Now the rabbits OTOH are awesome in the crock pot. :P

    My biggest female BP's will take a f/t medium on occasion, but the ones that are live-only never get anything bigger than a small rat or large ASF.
  • 01-23-2014, 11:09 AM
    coldbloodaddict
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    I have balls that eat retired breeder rats! giving them a small rat is a waste of their energy!


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  • 01-23-2014, 11:54 AM
    TexanLady
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    I have two normal females that are huge, and they both get large rats every 10 days. They always come up at me trying to get their food. One is five years old, and one is twelve years old. I think it has to do with the ball. I have a seven year old ball that still eats small rats, and I have a two year old female that eats mediums. So again, I really think it comes down to each individual ball. Just like some are mousers and will never eat anything else, some can take large rats easily.
  • 01-23-2014, 11:59 AM
    MrLang
    She is probably building IE preparing for breeding.
  • 01-23-2014, 12:00 PM
    Ladybugzcrunch
    While my adult females are on breeding feed mode and jump out of the tub for food I will offer a F/T large rat (usually a young 1-2 time breeder female that was a bad mamma). I would never offer anything alive over 120 grams or so. As long as the F/T is smaller than your Bp at her widest point (and she is not overweight/fat) she should be able to take it down just fine. You can feed too small also. I have had Bps of all sizes refuse a prey item because it was too small. I agree with cold blooded addiction that too small=waste of energy and some Bps wont bother with it. I offer all my pythons weekly unless they are in blue, then I don't bother.
  • 01-23-2014, 12:28 PM
    TexanLady
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Oh, I rarely feed live, and only to those few balls that get picky. I've got most of my adults trained to eat f/t now. I put the prey item in front of their hide before I go to bed and by morning it is gone. I'm too scared of one of by balls getting eaten up to just drop a live in there and walk away. I feed live to my hatchlings only long enough to get them to a nice healthy weight so I can start the transition to f/t. I only have a few adult BP's that force me to feed them live from time to time, but for the most part I've got my adults trained to where I can just lay down the thawed rat in front of their hide and it be gone by the time I wake up. I have one pastel female and one lesser female that I have to wave the rat in front of them for them to eat, but the rest just pick it up off the floor after I've gone to bed.
  • 01-23-2014, 12:54 PM
    BulkMice
    A large rat may be a bit much but its not really a big issue. It does sound like she is putting on mass for breeding.
  • 01-23-2014, 04:26 PM
    Zach Cedor
    Re: Female gained weight unusually fast
    Okay just to clarify she only gets f/t I wouldnt give her a large rat live just feel It could do to much damage worrys me lol well im glad its not to bizzarre of a weight gain

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