Quote Originally Posted by akaangela View Post
If your ball looks like a triangle (if cut in half) then he/she is thin. If she is nicely rounded she is fine. If she is little then feed her little things (ie hopper mice) if she is bigger you can feed her rat pups (or fuzzys). Good luck and give us photos!!! We love photos
Oh, ick about the notion of cutting it in half, but that's actually a good visual help. Yes, our little BP is on the thin side. When I first saw it, I noticed the spine, which I'd never noticed before on other snakes. However, its prior owner didn't have a UTH, and it came to us with quite a bit of shedding still attached to the rear third, so I'm chalking its thinness up to not eating/digesting well without proper warmth and humidity. Now that its warm, I'm hoping it will thrive well. This picture was taken the morning after we brought it home:


Nighttime of that same day, after it had eaten a hopper mouse. (I like how this picture shows the row of E.T. faces and then what look like molars!)


After missing a few "yawns," I had my camera ready and caught this one: