Assist Feeding?

[RR - Mackenzie]

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Thanks for the help everyone! The ball python in question is about five feet long, around 1,600 grams, and is about as thick as when you put your hands in a circle. He is a very big boy

We are going to Jack's Aquarium and Pets later tonight to pick one one small live rat to try out. Hopefully he'll eat tonight. I'll keep everyone posted on if he eats or not, which I hope he does!

[stevepoppers]

Dude, that monster could go without eating for a year. And he could eat at least a medium rat, I bet.

[WingedWolfPsion]

It's best to offer a smaller prey item to a snake that's been off-feed. I find my breeders respond best to a hopper or small rat when they've been off-feed for the season.
I also re-start them on live, and they switch back to FT without a hitch after that.

[don15681]

DO NOT ASSIST FEED THAT SNAKE. assist feeding is for hatchlings that never ate. your snake will eat when it's ready to eat as long as you are offering the same food he ate before he went off feed and has no health problems.

[Vypyrz]

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Thanks for the help everyone! The ball python in question is about five feet long, around 1,600 grams, and is about as thick as when you put your hands in a circle. He is a very big boy

Sounds more like 2600 grams, unless you have tiny hands... Good Luck...

[Danounet]

Good luck! That's a big male. Don't worry if he doesn't eat.

Sounds more like 2600 grams, unless you have tiny hands... Good Luck...

She is very young. Been hanging around the chat box lately, good kid!

[Adam Chandler]

My male pastel just ate yesterday for the first time since early Nov and by the looks of him he could have went a while longer, he never went into the "danger zone" of weight loss. Assist feeding causes ALOT of stress. Just keep trying live. Good luck.