Still hungry?

[RoyalGuardian]

I have that same water bowl so I can get a better idea of how big he is. How long is he do you know?

[Drew87]

Yes drew telling I'll have a huge pile of fun waiting for me is very helpful lol.....

Here are some pictures below of my blood and I will start keeping a log. then I'll ask my questions better based on those when I start the log.

The woman I got him from said he was 6-7 yrs old...But does that make sense that it would only be 5lbs after this many years? if so i guess thats where they slow metabolism comes into play.

Haha sorry i just messin around, Great looking blood but it cant be that old, its so small i say medium rats would be prefect but its kinda hard to tell from the pic. But yes when they do go its huge!!!!!! Best of luck !!!

[waltah!]

That would definitely be the smallest 7yr old blood i've seen. It's hard to tell from pics, but I would not bump his prey size up. If he has been eating large rats and he's that size I would maybe get a fecal done.

[littleindiangirl]

That is the small 6-7 YEAR old blood.

It is the best advice to keep track of what and when you feed any animals. Bloods have a voracious appetite and will get obese very quickly if we give in to their pleading looks and begging every time we open their cage.

Get a scale, by the looks of things the animal is not very big if I am thinking of the right size water bowl.

A large rat by many standards is between 250-350 grams. Thats the size a female rat will begin to have babies. It goes up from there to jumbo and XXL which will be in the 7-800's.

Depending on if you can get a picture with something like a pop can where we can judge the size of the animal, I would stick with small to MEDIUM rats for now weekly. Medium meaning 150-200 grams.

He may not poop for many months, but when he does, grab it and put it in a ziplock and throw into the fridge until you can get it in to the vet (preferably within a day of pooping) have a fecal float and perhaps a smear done to figure out if this guy has anything robbing him of nutrition.

When he gets older, yes, he very well could eat once every 3-4 weeks. They have an amazing SLOW metabolism and very few keepers understand just how FAT and obese they let their bloods get.

Don't let the common Fatty Mc Fatten blood pics on the internet fool you.

[Drew87]

That is the small 6-7 YEAR old blood.

It is the best advice to keep track of what and when you feed any animals. Bloods have a voracious appetite and will get obese very quickly if we give in to their pleading looks and begging every time we open their cage.

Get a scale, by the looks of things the animal is not very big if I am thinking of the right size water bowl.

A large rat by many standards is between 250-350 grams. Thats the size a female rat will begin to have babies. It goes up from there to jumbo and XXL which will be in the 7-800's.

Depending on if you can get a picture with something like a pop can where we can judge the size of the animal, I would stick with small to MEDIUM rats for now weekly. Medium meaning 150-200 grams.

He may not poop for many months, but when he does, grab it and put it in a ziplock and throw into the fridge until you can get it in to the vet (preferably within a day of pooping) have a fecal float and perhaps a smear done to figure out if this guy has anything robbing him of nutrition.

When he gets older, yes, he very well could eat once every 3-4 weeks. They have an amazing SLOW metabolism and very few keepers understand just how FAT and obese they let their bloods get.

Don't let the common Fatty Mc Fatten blood pics on the internet fool you.

Great post. good info!

[Ballpython2]

Thanks everyone. I thought so too when she first showed me the pictured before I went and picked him up. I was like he cannot be 6-7yrs old and only be this small.

I have question though someone said since their metabolism is so slow feeding an adult ( I think it was) every 3-4 weeks is the right thing to do wouldnt that make them real mean because of hunger getting the best of them?

so yall see the snake and these are the size rats I feed him the one in the center is a male the other two are female.

I only have one of the females left because i had these rats for two months and they didnt even mate once and I got impatient lol so three went down to one.

[littleindiangirl]

I'm not sure where the notion that they will be mean because they are hungry came from... Only humans are mean.

The slow metabolism coupled with a great appetite and feeding response would give the appearance of ravishing hunger I suppose.