I am getting into ball pythons to build a collection, but I decided that in order to build my collection I will have to raise up several females in order to get some of the morphs that I would like.

Being the crazy planner that I am, I was trying to graph the cost of feeding a female for 3 years to see how much it will cost, which way the best way of buying/producing food will be, etc..


What I need to know is a general time frame of the size of food they will be on (I have rodent pro prices, and other estimates I can go with to compare)

These feeding estimates will be with rats the whole way up, from pinky-whatever sized rats a 3 year old female will eat.


I know that my snake is about 6-8 months and is probably eating between pups and fuzzie sized rats.. but im curious if anyone has a general estimate somewhere that says something like


0-2 months 1 pinky
2-4 months 1 fuzzy
4-8 months 1 pup
8-14 months 1 weaned
14-24 months 1 small
24-46 months 1 medium


i know these are probably way off, I was just coming up with an example for people to correct.

If anyone had 3 years worth of logs for an example female Id love to look at it

Thanks,