Daytime Feeding?

Can I feed my ball during the day or is it best to wait until night time?

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

Can I feed my ball during the day or is it best to wait until night time?

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ask you bp.. my male will eat anytime any place just let him at the rat and my normal has her moments when she wants to eat during the day and others when she doesnt wanna be bugged till nite time (go figure she is a female)

some people will say its better to feed at nite but you gotta pay attention to when your snake wants to eat not the clock

k thx. i'll keep an eye on him.

My rescue will eat whenever, lights on/lights off, hides/no hides, it doesn't matter. This is good because I never actually see him "hunt" like I do my other BP, so I don't really know when he wants his food.

My other BP will hunt every 4 days or so, sticking just his head out of a hide or fake plant. He usually starts hunting after 9pm so I know when to feed him. It really is just how 771subliminal said it though, ask your BP because its all up to the individual snake.

Well, i thawed out his dinner and set it on top of the screen with a small bowl covering it to allow the scent to drift down into the enclosure. within 30 minutes he was half upside-down trying to get at his mice! i warmed up the first one nicely with the hair dryer, but he kind of grabbed the side of its neck and is now eating it butt first, will this cause any problems?

I'm not really sure about it causing problems, but I know to help prevent it from happening focus on warming up the head more than the body. This will give them a good heat signature of where to start eating.

yeah i did take time heating the head up more than the rest of the body, it might have just been the way he grabbed it from the tongs. I gave him a few minutes after finishing down the first one before offering the second, and he took it with no problems:gj:

He just took his 3rd and final mouse for this week. It seemed like each time after the first mouse he responded faster and stronger than before. By the third mouse it only took him a few seconds to strike! I am so pleased :D

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

yeah i did take time heating the head up more than the rest of the body, it might have just been the way he grabbed it from the tongs. I gave him a few minutes after finishing down the first one before offering the second, and he took it with no problems:gj:

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Good to hear! If your bp eats the prey rear first, it shouldn't cause any problems but it is a little more awkward for him/her to swallow. I did notice that with hoppers or mice, the overall stiffness of the legs was not enough to make eating backward difficult, but with rats, my bp would have quite a bit of trouble if he ate them backward.

Yeah as of now I'm giving him hoppers, last week I gave him 2 and decided to up it to 3 this week. The adult mice still look a little too big for him.

Adult mice always seem a little big for my BP, but he takes them down with no problems, and has eaten 5-6 now and never regurged or anything... he makes big poo tho lol.

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Originally Posted by sneakerpro

Adult mice always seem a little big for my BP, but he takes them down with no problems, and has eaten 5-6 now and never regurged or anything... he makes big poo tho lol.

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Ha I agree. It is hard to guess the weight on some adult mice so I bring my scale when I buy them. But I have switched to small rats now that are about 35 grams.

yeah I need to get a scale. I've seen some nice digital kitchen scales at the local grocery store that arent too pricey.

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

yeah I need to get a scale. I've seen some nice digital kitchen scales at the local grocery store that arent too pricey.

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Thats the way to go:) Try and get one that can hold at least 2000 grams. Mine goes up to 12 pounds and it was $24.

I've never weighed a feeder before, is it really that important to weigh them? I mean, in the wild a BP would be eating whatever it could find. I kind of eyeball the mice and if they seem to be small enough, they get eaten.

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Originally Posted by sneakerpro

I've never weighed a feeder before, is it really that important to weigh them? I mean, in the wild a BP would be eating whatever it could find. I kind of eyeball the mice and if they seem to be small enough, they get eaten.

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Its not super important to weigh them, personally I have a bad eye for weight which I found out after I bought 10 and half of them were 20 grams while the other half were close to 40. I like to know, that way I can gradually increase the size of prey.

Maybe next week ill get an adult mouse and see if he can handle it

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Originally Posted by sneakerpro

Adult mice always seem a little big for my BP, but he takes them down with no problems, and has eaten 5-6 now and never regurged or anything... he makes big poo tho lol.

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speaking of poo.....what does a BP poo look like? because I found what I thought may have been some poo when I was moving stuff around yesterday. It was dry, kind of small and mostly white. I guess it could have been something that fell off of something as I was moving stuff around....but I've never seen snake poo so I dont really know lol.

I've noticed that I buy different sizes too, luckily I have two different sized BP's so I can mix and match the mice easily.

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

speaking of poo.....what does a BP poo look like? because I found what I thought may have been some poo when I was moving stuff around yesterday. It was dry, kind of small and mostly white. I guess it could have been something that fell off of something as I was moving stuff around....but I've never seen snake poo so I dont really know lol.

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That is a urate, get to know them, you'll see them alot. Usually they are accompanied by a turd. Snake turds look just like any other turd. You'll know it when you see it... and smell it.

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speaking of poo.....what does a BP poo look like? because I found what I thought may have been some poo when I was moving stuff around yesterday. It was dry, kind of small and mostly white. I guess it could have been something that fell off of something as I was moving stuff around....but I've never seen snake poo so I dont really know lol.

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Yep thats a urate. It is usually accompanied by urine, so make sure you change the substrate where you found it or all together because the urine will get soaked right up. BP poo looks like cat poo! haha.

Didn't someone post a um... "detailed" picture of a turd and urate a couple weeks ago? If that could be found and posted here that would be cool.

Here is a link to the poo pic.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ighlight=urate

WOOT WOOT 200th post! I'm so glad this milestone was about poop! :D

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Originally Posted by sneakerpro

Here is a link to the poo pic.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ighlight=urate

WOOT WOOT 200th post! I'm so glad this milestone was about poop! :D

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Yay! 700 coming up soon here:) I'll try and make it a good one, probably not about poo....haha

hmm ok so what i found was the urate....but i didnt see any actual poo:confused:

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

hmm ok so what i found was the urate....but i didnt see any actual poo:confused:

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You will...eventually, don't worry your bp will poo when he needs to:) If your bp is not eating enough (3 hoppers sounds like enough though lol) the poo may be small because most of it is absorbed for nutrients. Just be patient:)

thx. You laid my worrying to rest :)

So there can be urate without any poo?

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

thx. You laid my worrying to rest :)

So there can be urate without any poo?

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Yep. Can you pee without pooping? Haha

I had two seperate urates before i noticed my guys first "duece". His first duece was a little runny but he hadn't eaten in awhile. Now everything is just like the picture in the link i posted.

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Originally Posted by missi182

Yep. Can you pee without pooping? Haha

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lol

thank you guys so much for replying to all my dumb questions :D

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Originally Posted by TheHabit

lol

thank you guys so much for replying to all my dumb questions :D

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The only dumb question, is the one you don't ask....:)