Feeding Questions

[Albert420]

Hi all reptile owners , as some might know , my girlfriend and I are proud new owners of 2 beautiful BP.

The breeder told us to feed them fuzzies and if they are more hungry feed another fuzzie ? the one spider desert Male is 710 g and just under a year I'd say 11 months

The other is 100% het ultramel pastel enchi also male and 890g and 14 months old.
Both have a good appetite and husbandry is tripled checked everyday lol
OCD.......

Surely they shouldn't be eating fuzzies ? Shouldnt they be eating full grown mice by now?

Thanks in advanced ��

[EL-Ziggy]

Fuzzys are way too small I'd think. At that size I'd be feeding small rats at a minimum. I usually start offering mediums when they hit 1kg.

[Gocntry]

Yes fuzzies are way too small, I feed my baby BP fuzzies and they are around 100 grams

My Big BP who's at 850 grams gets a small rat weekly they range from about 45g to 65 grams

[Craiga 01453]

Are we talking mouse fuzzzies or rat fuzzies here?

Cause fuzzy mice are WAY too small. Something isn't adding up here.

Those are some big boys for their age. They definitely didn't get that way eating mouse fuzzies.

[Albert420]

He said to feed them the small mice fuzzies till they eat regularly, seeing.g as they are in new enclosures etc. After they eat regularly I can change yo hoppers so I'm guessing he had them on hoppers before? maybe then two hoppers per week? I don't really know

[Craiga 01453]

He said to feed them the small mice fuzzies till they eat regularly, seeing.g as they are in new enclosures etc. After they eat regularly I can change yo hoppers so I'm guessing he had them on hoppers before? maybe then two hoppers per week? I don't really know

Well ok. Even feeding hoppers it seems odd they'd be that size.

BPs eat hoppers fresh out of the egg, typically only for their first 3-5 meals, before moving up to small adult mice or being transferred to rats. So the breeder suggesting fuzzies seems very odd, especially for well established yearlings.

At that size and age they should be on large adult mice or small rats by now. With juvenile and sub-adult BPs you want to shoot for prey 10-15% of the snakes body weight.

Fuzzies are 5-7 grams. Small rats are 50-89 grams. HUUUUGE difference.
So at 700 grams a fuzzy is less than 1% of the smaller snakes body weight. The 900 gram guy is getting a fraction of a percentage of what he should be eating.

[dr del]

Ok,

I'm going to be the one to ask - did you mean the desert morph or the desert ghost? They are two different morphs and one of them has a problem you should have been told about before purchasing.