Success!! Switching to f/t at 5 years old.

[Dianna]

A little background info... I adopted my 5-6 year old female BP (Gogo) in August. Her previous owner was far from perfect and (in my opinion) made lots of mistakes, including feeding habits. Gogo was fed 1-2 small live mice every 1-2 weeks, "or so". Gogo was never introduced to a rat or f/t. At 5 years old and 4 1/2 feet long she weighed roughly 1100-ish grams.

I made drastic changes to Gogo's life once I adopted her, so I wanted to take it slow when changing her diet to prevent stress and possible hunger strike. At first, I upped the number & size of live mice. Over time, I introduced her to an 80g live rat, which she was very excited about. I hated feeding her rats because I was worried even the small ones would bite her. I had dreams of switching her to f/t so she could eat larger prey and get to a normal healthy weight faster... But I had big doubts she would tolerate f/t food.

Her first introduction to a frozen/thawed rat went perfectly!! I heated his head to about 90F, made him do a zombie rat dance to get her interest and she grabbed him- really hard too! Startled me how hard she hit, guess I wasn't expecting her enthusiasm lol.

Today was her second f/t feeding, and it was equally as perfect as the first. Hopefully it'll be smooth sailing from here in the weight gain department! She is currently up to 1320g empty

Sorry for the long post, I'm just very excited! Here's a current (and cute!!) picture of Gogo

[MidMoLineman]

Congrats! I just got mine to eat f/t rat too yay us! I need to get a scale to weigh him lol!

Alan

[SquamishSerpents]

awesome to hear!

is Gogo a pastel? she looks like my adult male pastel. could just be the lighting though, if she's not.

[iCandiBallPythons]

That is a gorgeous girl right there!

[aybe.sea]

lovely colors. i'd adopt her anyday

[Bruce Whitehead]

Congrats.

I switched an 8 year old girl recently as well. She seems to be in good hands, and she is an ABSOLUTE stunner. What a beautiful snake you have there.

Bruce

[Dianna]

Aw, thanks so much guys! I find her to be quite the pretty girl also

Katia - Gogo is not a pastel, she's just a cute normal with lots of blushing The photo is fairly true to her real colors.