my bp loooks hungry and she has eaten 4 mice

my tiger weighs about 580g before she ate well yesterday night was feeding time so i fed her 3 mice in a row she dogged them and still look hungry so i fed her today in the afternoon and she ate again!! so a total of 4 she still loooks reallly hungry do i feed her again?? i dont want to over feed her but i dont want her to be hungry. she looks it & it seems she wants more

I'm no expert or anything but I have to say that 4 mice in 24hrs is WAY to much. You should be feeding 1 right sized mouse/rat every 5 to 7 days.

Scott

What is the weight of these mice? Your prey size should be about 60 grams.

honestly i have no idea i feed them by the width of the body but it was about 2 avg sized mice adult mice and 2 juvis

yeah with mice that size I would for sure say that is too much. you might just have a very active lil girl. I'm guessing you are saying she "looks" hungry because she is moving around?

Scott

yea kinda she moves around very very slowly and then she waits in the strike position when she wants to eat lol maybe i have a feeeding machine??

Yeah you might have a feeding machine and I'm sure an expert will chime in here soon and explain it but power feeding is really not good for your snake.

It could result in an off feed then she won't eat for months.

damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn did i screw something up??? what do i do feed her 1 rat? in 7 days? or wait a while? why is power feeding bad?

I would feed two adult mice every 7 days. An adult mouse in my eyes is about 30grams.

ok ill keep doing more research she seems fine to me tho no regurgitation no acting wierd she is digesting i assume in her hide over her heat :gj: ill see what happens next week

She could be ready for a small rat.

When i got my first snake in Nov. My male het albino. I didn't know much of what i was doing. I would feed feed feed. Well in March he stopped eating. He has lost only a few grams but will not eat. I have tried everything mice, rats, scenting the rodents with used gerbil bedding but nothing works. I'm not to worried thought because he looks healthy and acting healthy. But to get to my point I believe this problem is from over feeding. Opps :rolleye2:

Just because she can eat that much does not mean she should.

Snakes will severely over-eat. They can constantly look hungry when they are not as well. It is your job as a keeper to feed proper amounts of food per week. 4 mice being very difficult on the system of the animal. (plus, the snake should have been left alone for 48 hours after eating in the first place).

Get some proper sized rats and feed one every 7 days. Go either by the % rule or visual rule (prey should be the same thickness as the thickest point on the snakes body).

^^^ I second that, just because a snake will keep eating doesnt mean you keep feeding. If you are feeding more than 2 mice a feeding then i thnk its time to upgrade to a small rat once every week.

ill see what size she should eat she def looks about the right size for a rat

I've had something similar happen where after feeding an appropriately sized prey item (a rat in this case) she still zooms around her cage in the strike position looking for more. This was after a 5 month hunger strike so i gave her another smaller prey item.

But then i figured out what the problem was. I feed in the enclosure, so it wasnt that she was really hungry, it was that she SMELLED the rat. I cleaned her cage to get the rat smell out, and then she was back to normal.

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Originally Posted by th3jok3r

damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn did i screw something up??? what do i do feed her 1 rat? in 7 days? or wait a while? why is power feeding bad?

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im no expert. infact a complete newb. but ive heard that power feeding is bad because the body can develop quicker than bones (or vice versa) basically it can cause a load of health problems.

also, one you have gotten your snake to feed once, it is in "feeding mode", and will look for other things to eat. which is why it appears hungry. it isnt, its just its instincts taking over.

If your snake is "hungry" like that then you need to up the prey size. I feed a small/med rat to my 607g male every 7 days and he is peachy. Please take notice that you are overfeeding your pet by a ton.

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Originally Posted by seercirra

im no expert. infact a complete newb. but ive heard that power feeding is bad because the body can develop quicker than bones (or vice versa) basically it can cause a load of health problems.

also, one you have gotten your snake to feed once, it is in "feeding mode", and will look for other things to eat. which is why it appears hungry. it isnt, its just its instincts taking over.

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If your a newb your very well informed! keep it up!:gj:

It's called feeding mode. They will stay in that feed mode until the prey smell dissipates. I have babies that would keep on eating, but they only get 1-2 medium adult mice. They'd eat 4 and explode if I let them.

At that size, feed her two large adult mice. She'll be fine and will grow the same. Too much food equals ALOT of poop :) So that just equals you throwing mice in the trash because her body isn't using it.

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Originally Posted by seercirra

im no expert. infact a complete newb. but ive heard that power feeding is bad because the body can develop quicker than bones (or vice versa) basically it can cause a load of health problems.

also, one you have gotten your snake to feed once, it is in "feeding mode", and will look for other things to eat. which is why it appears hungry. it isnt, its just its instincts taking over.

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lol, i feel im fairly knowledgable, but thats detail =p. im actually taking note of that lol. taught me sumthin thanks :D

she looks healthy hasnt puked either i guess it wasnt a big deal one time thing she is a monster tho lol :taz: