What do you feed your snakes?

[Scirlygirl]

What do you feed your ball pythons and how often? Just would like to hear different opinions and what you do



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[Navaro]

My case is a little different. I received a rescue female. Who was at best guess at least a year old (she had been with her previous owner for at least 12 months). She was 150 odd grams, and not in the best shape. She was being fed a fuzzie mouse every 7 - 10 days. Which was far too little.


For the first 2 weeks, I fed her 2 fuzzie mice every 5 days, because I knew she would take them. Eventually I switched to rat pups, and then to 2x Rat pups every 7 - 10 days. Which she's been great on. Next step is weaned rats, and so on and so fourth. Every 7 days if she's actively looking by day 5, I'll typically offer, and she'll typically take it.

She's tripled in weight since I received her, and doing great.

[Venoshock]

I just moved my girl up to mice hoppers and I'm probably going to move her up from that pretty soon as well!

I feed every 4-5 days.

[Mr. Misha]

One of mine still eats large mice and the rest vary from small to medium rats.

[Cyndymei]

I feed my male one medium rat a week, however he'd happily eat as many as he could every day.

At the pet store I got him from they were feeding him 2 jumbo mice a feeding, but they were still small for him. When I first got him he was 575 grams. I meant to weigh him again but I just fed him yesterday. The rats are about 100g each and he is always looking for more.

I usually feed every 7 days but sometimes it's every 6 days.

[blk02ssmonte]

All of mine are on small rats except my pied....stubborn guy only wants mice. Tried and tried to switch to rats but he wont take em!

[Commandokev]

7-10 days. My adults get 1 Med rat f/t. My small guy is still picky about rats so it changes between pups (when I can trick him into thinking its a mouse) and adult mice. He obviously prefers the mice. He gets offered food every 5-7 days unless he is on a strike then its 4-5 days.

[Scirlygirl]

Very interesting everyone, amazing how they are all on different paces huh?

My adult female is so picky! I did have her at a large rat once a month but I'm trying to get her to a small rat every week at least. I have a pastel male that only eats when he feels like it then goes up to 6 months off every year without eating. My 9 month old black pastel eats a large rat once a month with no problem (I know he's a monster!). But he will take a medium rat every two weeks. I have a little girl who refused to eat the first two months I go her bc she was used to live and now she's eating a large mouse once a week, but I hope to switch her to rats soon. And I have a 3,800g female that hasn't ate since March..she isn't even interested!


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[ZillaBalls]

Hello .
I have a small mojave male I purchased last week and he just ate for the first time yesterday. I fed him a small mouse. I also have a yearling that is eating medium mice every 4 days. The last is a het clown male that is about 5 months old and he's eating a medium mouse every 8 days. I want to feed my female large mice but I'm not sure if she is ready. She is a rescue and she was in very bad shape when I got her...

[KMG]

I feed my male one medium rat a week, however he'd happily eat as many as he could every day.

At the pet store I got him from they were feeding him 2 jumbo mice a feeding, but they were still small for him. When I first got him he was 575 grams. I meant to weigh him again but I just fed him yesterday. The rats are about 100g each and he is always looking for more.

I usually feed every 7 days but sometimes it's every 6 days.

What guide are you following? Going by the standard practice of 10-15% of the snakes weight you are over feeding you ball unless its around 2000 grams.

To answer this broad question I feed everything from mice pinks to XXL rats usually on a 2week schedule.