Quote Originally Posted by Raven01 View Post
Ya they will.
Just like a person eating McDonalds every day will considerably shorten their life-span.
There is a reason captive animal usually live much longer than wild counterparts that does not include predation. We as sentient beings with the tools to study these animals can give them an overall healthier life than they would have in the wild. Things like elimination of parasites, proper nutrition, all the things that go into good husbandry.
There are things we have to do that never happen in the wild. There is no one spot cleaning, changing substrate or filtering and purifying their water.

This is not a new or novel species where we need to try everything and figure out what works. If you are feeding the right size prey every 3 days for the size of snake you have for an extended period you will have a fat snake.

IF you knew anything about raising these animals with their full potential, you'd know that eventually, the snake will stop being interested every 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, as they grow, until they aren't really interested in food more than once a week usually - an exception being putting weight on back on females after eggs.

This second post you made is just downright ignorant.

1. You're claiming that these snakes will literally KILL THEMSELVES by making the choice to over eat? Do you even own a ball python? Show me 1 well documented instance of this, please, show me.

2. Comparing essentially the most natural diet a python could possibly have, with the horror of the "food" they sell at McDonalds is absolutely ludicrous. Do you understand to any degree what homo sapiens are supposed to be eating? McDonald's is not food. Not real food. Human beings were never designed to be eating the things they sell at these restaurants.