Concerned with my BP after assisted feed

[Frost33]

Thanks a lot, you've all been a huge help. I'm going to move her soon as I hit send.

When can/should I move her back to the bigger cage?

Also, size does concern me, a hopper seems so big for her.

[RR - Mackenzie]

Thanks a lot, you've all been a huge help. I'm going to move her soon as I hit send.

When can/should I move her back to the bigger cage?

Also, size does concern me, a hopper seems so big for her.

Once she is much bigger, give her a bit.

Ball pythons can swallow 3x the size of their heads, so she'll be okay.

[AkHerps]

My snake was fine going over a month with no food, he wasn't weak at all. When I had to handle him after a meal because his jaws went down his throat he was extremely weak afterwards just from the stress of it all.

The OP'ssnake also wasn't weak just the day before, so thats why I was thinking stress.

We also don't really know how the OP went about trying to assist feed.

Yeah a lot of breeders start their new hatchlings off on small adult mice and skip right over hoppers.

[RichsBallPythons]

Yeah a lot of breeders start their new hatchlings off on small adult mice and skip right over hoppers.

Can you name some of them. As a small adult is a HUGE meal for a hatchling thats under 150g.

Hoppers leave bulges in hatchlings on thier first meal, id hate to see small adults fed to them.



Not trying to bash you but making sure you prove what your saying as feeding too big to non established feeding babies can cause problem-some faster than anything.

[AkHerps]

I've seen it all over the forum, with many breeders on this forum saying they just start off on small adults. Small adult mice are really pretty small unless you're just getting jumbo sized mice.

The OP's snake is pretty small and if the snake wont take any hoppers, etc..in the future that aren't alive, they can try the smallest mouse they can find if nothing else works, since you don't want to be assist feeding forever.

[RichsBallPythons]

I've seen it all over the forum, with many breeders on this forum saying they just start off on small adults. Small adult mice are really pretty small unless you're just getting jumbo sized mice.

Thats news to me. Sm adults in my rack at 15grams and thats pretty big for the average 50-60g hatchling

[Frost33]

Here is her current set up. I thought it was 10 gallons, but perhaps its a bit smaller. I'll see what I can dig up for more clutter, but this is the best I have right now.



So really? 3x, and a hopper would be safe?


BTW, I took that twig out after the pic, just wanted to put in in since everyone told me to take it out.