Hungry!!!!

[Bhikku]

Okay, so I am starting to believe that every story I've ever heard about difficulties with feeding BPs is way hyperbolic, because my new baby is pounding back rodents like nobody's business.

Since I got her, she's eaten 5 fuzzy mice and 1 adult mouse.

I wasn't going to feed her for at least four days after her last feeding, but she has been "pacing" the tank looking hungry (and when I've handled her, she has exhibited what I would interpret as food aggression). I doubt this is stress behavior because her humidity/temperatures are perfect and she doesn't seem to be in shed. She really just seems ravenous, not upset at me. She's usually calm and shy (content to curl in her hide) so the new activity is out of the ordinary.

She seems to try and hunt whenever I take her out, and when I finally gave in and gave her an adult mouse two days before her scheduled feeding, she attacked it violently and gulped it down like she hadn't eaten in three months.

What gives?

[Freakie_frog]

Different snake's different feeding responces.. I have a Mojave that wont touch a rat but just rails an ASF.. I've heard of people saying Pieds are picky eaters..My guy just pounds rats, so does the Het male..My het female however she's a 1500 gram mouser..

[Bhikku]

I just want to make sure I'm not overfeeding her if I occasionally feed her every three days instead of four or five if she's acting particularly starved. I'm just so happy to have a ball that will eat!

[SNIKTTIME]

LMAO if you deal with enough BP you will find out sooner or later. I have snakes that eat while shedding and ones that won't. I had a Bumblebee stop eating for 2 months on me. Any time you change anything for your BP they are subject to fasting, like upsizing the tub or switching from mice to rats, or going in and out of breeding season when they are mature enough. I think the magic number for most BP to start fasting is between 600-800 grams. Time will tell as not all BP will annoy you with this.

[GoingPostal]

I wouldn't judge the feeding response of a snake that can live over 20 years on one month. My male BP ate fantasically,anything and everything for 3 years straight and has now fasted for two months and still going. No interest at all in eating. It happens to the majority of them eventually.

[seeya205]

I wouldn't feed less then every 4 days! I would try a rat because an adult mouse is the biggest mouse you can get! If he feeds well then switching should not be a problem! Go with the widest part of the snake and the rat should be the same width! I would go with a rat fuzzy or maybe even a rat pup to fill him longer!