Wow! Growth!

I've taken to weighing Ramona after she goes to the bathroom (for consistency's sake). The last time I weighed her was about 2 wks ago, and she was 400g. I weighed her yesterday and she was over 500g! That's a lot of growth for two weeks, isn't it?! :D

And today is feeding day!!!!! :P

Wow, that's quite inmpressive!

Eating on some rats, right?

Yep, she just started rats. She's had 2. Today is rat #3.

Yay for Rats! :)

awesome. i started both snakes on rats 2 weeks ago.. thats some nice growth.. i hope to see something like that in our collection

What age do you generally start feeding rats? I know it has to do with the snakes size, but an estimate of age would be helpfull cause I've been curious for a while.

6-7 months for females, slightly older for males. It honestly depends on how fast they grow and that depends on how much they are eating. Although it does very from snake to snake, thats a ballpark figure for ya. It all depends on their girth. Prey size should be slightly less than or equal to their max point of girth.

Well should I just feed my BP every 7 days then to get her up to size by 6-7months or do I need to feed her more often? I'm used to feeding Elysia every 5 days to get her growing, she is eating every 6 days now though.

i feed my bp every 6 days because she is still young (about 2 months old). she gets a small adult mouse at each feeding right now, which seems to fit quite nicely in her little belly. i think they use the nutrition from their food much more quickly when they are little because they do grow so fast.

Its all about the size of the prey to the size of your snake. Every snake is different. The sooner you can get to rats the better off you are.

i feed my snake rats. roo should have been started a long time ago (over a year ago), and roswell just started too. he is about 6 months old. i am lucky that the local pet-kingdom (and it truly is) has all sized rats from newbies, fuzzies, hoppers, weenlings, and then it goes small med. large, jumbo. i can pick and choose the perfect size (till my breeding takes off). look for a rat thats just the right size. i dont know if roswell is a large snake, but i couldnt feed him newbies, fuzzies, weenlings, or hopper, they were all too small. i had to start with the small rats, and even the small ones looks like he will outgrow it in a month or 2 at the most. i will have to move to the med sized ones soon.

Well my BP is going on 4 months old I believe so I've got a couple months to go :P
I think she is eatting hopper mice. I'll measure her girth and check the hoppers at the store :P

When she gets 6 months old though Im starting rats :P