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Am I overfeeding?
Hello all. I have a ~6 month old BP (female I think) who I've been feeding 2 hoppers every 5 days. Does she seem too fat? This is 2 days after her last feeding and she hasn't pooped in ~2/3 weeks.
Thanks!
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
I would say no. I feed a rat pup every 5 days at that age.
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
You could try soaking her in warm water for a bit and see if that helps her release.
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
Hoppers are pretty small for a 6 months old BP, I would recommend you to go up in size.
Hatchling BP are generally started on hoppers and quickly move to adult mice.
After for the famous poop question , there is no set schedule it varies according to prey size, feeding frequency, whether the animal is growing or not etc.
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
Six months and you're feeding it two hoppers? Geeze at that age I was feeding small rats (slightly larger than full grown mice) every 10 days.
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
my hatchling balls were eating hoppers the first time , then the stores only had full grown . So i bought them and they ate them with no problem.
samuel
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
In my opinion, if you feed more than once a week, you are feeding to often/frequent regarldess of the species.
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These 2 hoppers, are they in one sitting or 2 within 5 days? Either way, if you are finding that you have to feed two meals, I recommend bumping up to the next prey size. A snake of that age would do just fine on a 7-10 day regimen.
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Re: Am I overfeeding?
My two females are 5 months old and I feed them 1 rat weanling every 7 days.
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