Baby seems thin... Help! New ball python owner

[kittymeow]

If he will only eat mice now then by all means feed him mice I have a hatchling on mice who I am leaving for a couple of feeds until I try to switch him over I totally understand putting weight on them first and then switching


My boy who is on mice is gaining weight and over the space of two weeks he has went from 87g to 107g so I'm much happier with his weight gain than any immediate changes to rats.

That's so great to hear. I hope mine will go through the same change in the next few weeks. The breeder told me that he was the only one out of his hatchlings who he couldn't get to switch over to rats yet.

I'd change the battery in your scale. He looks much bigger than 82 grams. Some hatchlings weigh that much right out of the egg. Your guy looks just fine in those pics.

The first picture is the scale the breeder weighed him in. I weighed him on my own scale as-well and the numbers matched. :/ He's really tiny. Also keep in the mind that I have really small hands so he just looks bigger! lol!