I have several baby ball pythons (220g, 200g, and 130g). Right now, they are all being fed 10-15% of their body weight every 4 days with the exception of the 130ger. She's a mouser and eats an adult mouse (roughly 20g-25g). The other two get fed 2 rat fuzzies (the one who only eats live is scared of anything that moves more than fuzzy rats). I'm trying to use up the frozen fuzzies that I have before moving onto my bag of rat pups (I've got roughly 8 more fuzzies left). When do I need to change their feeding schedule to a 5 or more day schedule. Both eat like clockwork. The 220g is a female that I would LIKE to breed next fall so I'm trying to get her up to weight at a fast but healthy pace. She was a rescue and was born late 2011 but when I got her in July, she was only 44g...so she's a lot older than she appears. The 200ger is a male who will have a date with a pastel as soon as he's over 500g...so I want him to grow at a fast but healthy pace as well. What's a good feeding schedule? I've been roughly basing my feeding on this: http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...ging_chart.jpg
For my feeding question, the male is currently eating live rat fuzzies. Like I said above, he's scared of the rats that have their eyes open and really move around. Is there a way I can break that? Ideally, I'd LOVE him to be on F/T but he never has any interest in F/T that I offer him. However, I'll toss in a couple of live rat pinkies or live rat fuzzies and he gobbles them up no problem.
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