live seen that document before, she looks in between the overweight and ideal look with her weight.
She is not overweight I can guarantee you that. Posting a picture of the animal would go a long ways. Coming from someone who has multiples animals I can assure you that unless the animal is deformed in some way it is NOT too small for a weaned rat at that weight.
Something isn't adding up here. That snake from what you have told us is going on 11 months old. I have 5 month old BP's that are bigger than that. I don't powerfeed any of my animals.. Even the breeding females. But, with that being said for a female that is almost a year old she is too small. Just based off of that picture I would have no issues feeding it a weaned rat. Thickest part of her body is the size of two fingers put together and to be honest that would be about a small. She's just not going to grow at normal rates if you continue to feed her medium mice every 14 days. She will start to become aggressive and that can lead to undesirable situations.
For example, some of my aggressive feeding females are on MEDIUM rats at 14 months and that hardly puts a dent in them. The males could probably do it as well but I tend to leave them on smalls unless they are getting ready to breed. A comparable animal to my collection at the same age currently is around 750 grams feeding on small rats. That's once a week unless they are in shed. Once the females hit around 900 they go to mediums..
To bring things into perspective the snake is not in bad shape just on the smaller side of the spectrum. The problem lies in the behavior the animal will display as it grows and continues to be underfed. It's an excellent way to get bit.
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