How often should I be feeding Vigil? I'm getting very mixed answers from people in the Dumeril's Boa group on facebook. Some say that Dums have much slower metabolisms than ball pythons, and only need to be fed ONE weaned rat once every 2 weeks, even for a Dum as small as mine... which sounds like very little to me. Some say one small rat every week.
I've just been feeding her a weaned rat every 8 days...
I haven't weighed Vigil yet, but she is a little less than 3 feet long.
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