What does this mean...? (feeding question)

[bamf64]

LOL. I do feed one of my BPs 4 mice at a time, since she won't eat rats... but she weighs over 700g, so probably outweighs your baby by a lot.

Anyway, try feeding in the enclosure next week, and see what happens. If she still refuses, you might have to try live the following week... good luck!

lol ya my girl is 205 grams empty. shes grown tho i got her wen she was around 60 haha

and i just fed her a f/t mouse in her enclosure and she took it happily. ive never seen her be that enthusiastic about an f/t before

and im gona order 50 adult mice from rodentpro.com sometime this week because the ones at my store are 15$ for FOUR MICE!!! its rediculous!!

thanks for the answers everyone!

[seeya205]

lol ya my girl is 205 grams empty. shes grown tho i got her wen she was around 60 haha

and i just fed her a f/t mouse in her enclosure and she took it happily. ive never seen her be that enthusiastic about an f/t before

and im gona order 50 adult mice from rodentpro.com sometime this week because the ones at my store are 15$ for FOUR MICE!!! its rediculous!!

thanks for the answers everyone!

You should give her rat pups if she will take them! Mine male is 182 grams and eats a rat pup every 5 days!

[rabernet]

You should give her rat pups if she will take them! Mine male is 182 grams and eats a rat pup every 5 days!

Why "should" he feed rats? Mind you, I feed rats, but mice are perfectly fine for ball pythons as well. I raised most of my normal females on mice before I started breeding rats. They grew just fine!

[bamf64]

Why "should" he feed rats? Mind you, I feed rats, but mice are perfectly fine for ball pythons as well. I raised most of my normal females on mice before I started breeding rats. They grew just fine!

ya i totally understand that. im going to switch her to rats when she gets to big for XL mice haha

[Moofins07]

Balls stress easy. Moving them can pretty much make them not hungry anymore. Or they want to explore and find a place to hide.
The point is you want to stress them as little as possible.

Wow. I can't believe I didn't think of this before... I figured that my BP just does NOT want to eat F/T. But I just realized that both times I tried to feed it to her, I had moved her to a separate tank. Since then, she's been on live, and apparently she ate F/T all the time before I got her, so I don't know if she'll revert back, but it's worth a shot!

EDIT: I also should have mentioned that since switching to live, I'd starting feeding her in her enclosure.

[bamf64]

Wow. I can't believe I didn't think of this before... I figured that my BP just does NOT want to eat F/T. But I just realized that both times I tried to feed it to her, I had moved her to a separate tank. Since then, she's been on live, and apparently she ate F/T all the time before I got her, so I don't know if she'll revert back, but it's worth a shot!

EDIT: I also should have mentioned that since switching to live, I'd starting feeding her in her enclosure.

hope it works out for you!