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    How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    Every 2 days?

    Every 3-5 days?

    Every 7 days?

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    Re: How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    feed babies up to about 400-500g every 5 days. Anything bigger than that every 7.

    The way I, personally, do it is I feed anyone eating Fuzzy rats and smaller every 4-5 days. Anyone eating weaned rats or larger every 7 days.

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    Hatchling - 500 grams get fed every 4-5 days.
    500 + grams get put on a 7 -10 day schedule.

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    Re: How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    I agree with the above. I feed every 5 days until 500 grams and then weekly.

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    Re: How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    I'm on a 3-4 day schedule. They feed on sunday, then Wednesday, then the following Sunday repeats the schedule. I'll do that till they hit about 500g then ill go on a 5 day with 10 percent body weight meals. After they pass 1000g I will go on a 7 day, 15 percent meal.

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    Re: How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    For the most part, I feed once a week regardless of size/age...

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    Right now all of my snakes are less than 350g and eat every 4-5 days.
    Why keep a snake? Why keep any animal? Because you enjoy the animal, find something beautiful and fascinating about it, and it fits seamlessly into your lifestyle.

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    How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    Every 5 days for hatchlings

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    I have a 210g spider female and she every 2-3 days. Is that bad to be feeding her that much?
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    Re: How often do you feed your baby ball python's?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kodieh View Post
    I'm on a 3-4 day schedule. They feed on sunday, then Wednesday, then the following Sunday repeats the schedule. I'll do that till they hit about 500g then ill go on a 5 day with 10 percent body weight meals. After they pass 1000g I will go on a 7 day, 15 percent meal.
    You do know that the 10-15% rule is only for juveniles? Adults shouldn't be getting more than a medium rat worth of food a week. My mediums have been running around 150-175g...and I feed those to my 2200g ball python.

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