Fat??

[Bundu Boy]

How do you know if your snake is too fat? I have all my babies on a 5 day feeding schedule, feeding 10% of body weight. My male pastel went from 536 g on 6/23 to 616 g on 7/8. He is being put on a diet, but i'm wondering if I should go to 7 days or 10 days?

Too me he doesn't look that fat, but he is a big boy. He also doesn't look proportioned to his head like my female normal. She's a little smaller than him, but her head is bigger. He moves fine, so how do I tell if he is getting too fat?

Here is a pictur of him with my smallest female, 285 g mojave. All weights are current and after a poo.

Good to see you are looking at feeding schedules and are concerned over weight gain.

They need weekly feeding when they are growing but once they hit about 800g I'd cut back feeding to once every 10-14 days.

Weigh your balls after they poop, this will give you a more accurate reading of their weight. Weight gain of 50g a month is imo a healthy gain, anything more would indicate that the fat reserves are building up too quick.