baby BP feeding

I have a baby BP that just ate yesterday (6-26) it is only a little over a month and I was wondering what eveyones thoughts were on how often it should be fed???

I feed mine an adult mouse every 4 days. When they get bigger i switch them to rats.

I feed hatchlings every 5 days once I get them started well. I found refusals were too frequent on a 4 day schedule.

Depends on how big you want it to get. Majority people will say 5-7 days.

I just want him to be happy and healthy. He seems a little thin to me (i dont have a scale). He went after his mouse good so he must have been hungry!! I will try feeding again maybe monday or tues. Thanks for all your help....

I feed babies every 5 days until they reach 300 grams. Then every 7 days.

If you just want him to pick up some girth, just feed him every 5 days for a few weeks, then switch to 7 days.

I would say mix it up a bit, but ball pythons are funny about stuff like that and he may go off feed.

here is a pic of the little guy.....http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1246334779

I got my BP about a month ago and she was barely a little longer than that and thin.

She ate 5 days later after the last time the exotic pet store lady fed her, and she has kept on eating every 5 days. She always attacks the mouse within seconds of putting in her enclosure. Except the last time I fed her, which I tried to feed her a rat pup. I guess because it was a new expirience for her and my self lol. But still She attack the rat after 1 minute of studying it (or at least thats what it looked like), maybe 2 minutes tops. She ate every 5 days even thorugh shed.

The size of the mice are the size of her widest part or sometimes a little bigger. She has a nice thickness now, but I dont believe she is fat.

There was one time where I though she was fat, but then she pooped and pee'd all together one time, and she got back to her regular thickness. And I was like "ohhhhhhh! sorry I called you a fat lady" :D

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Originally Posted by Jamie-n-Heith

I just want him to be happy and healthy. He seems a little thin to me (i dont have a scale). He went after his mouse good so he must have been hungry!! I will try feeding again maybe monday or tues. Thanks for all your help....

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If you just fed on the 26th, I would think Monday would be to soon. that would only be three days. I would wait until Tuesday maybe even Wednesday.:gj:


By the way, very cute little one you have there.

I feed an adult mouse every friday. I was feeding a large hopper on the same day before he got big enough for adults. Seems to be doing just fine. Like others said, if you want him to grow big feed every 5 days, otherwise 7 days is perfectly adequate, but once a month is not enough.

went to the reptile store last night and they were out of small mice so maybe that was a good thing, wed is my day off so I will try feeding then. I guess I am just excited I love to feed the little guy LOL!