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We feed when they are hungry and when we have the time, no schedule per say, but they all tend to get offered twice a week except adults who get offered every 7-10 days.
Jerry Robertson
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Re: Do you feed on a schedule?
I feed once a week, if they don't eat, they wait till next week. The only snakes that ever get offered food more often are breeder females to speed up their weight loss recovery and prepare them for the upcoming season. They generally are offered food every 4-5 days, and need it.
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Every Friday for all my pythons (hatchlings- adults). For certain adults I may skip a week once or twice a month depending how fat they are lol
Brittany Davis
0.1 Snow BCI- Isis
1.0 Hypo Motley het Albino BCI- Rupert
Ball pythons
1.0 Champagne, 1.0 Albino Spider, 1.0 Savannah, 0.2 Normal, 0.1 Het Toffee, 0.1 Black Butter,
0.1 Spider, 0.2 Pastel, 0.1 Enchi, 0.1 Albino
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Absolutely I do. Every 5 days for my bp's as mine are all young. I will switch to a 7 day once they get to about 400 grams. I feed my juvi boa every 7 days, and then I will switch to every 10 days when he gets bigger.
-Joe
1.0 100% Het. Albino
1.0 Pastel
0.1 Fire
1.0 Pinstripe
1.0 Purple Albino Retic
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Re: Do you feed on a schedule?
I feed mine once every 3 weeks.
Definetly on a Schedule !
Please explain how/why you feed Every week ? 
Harry
0.1 normal 3,200 grams 5 feet long
100 gallon tank with 4 UTH
3 are thermostat controlled, the 4th one is constantly powered located directly under the water dish.
17" x 13" clear glass rectangular baking dish (5 quart) for her to soak in
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Re: Do you feed on a schedule?
 Originally Posted by Old Sloppy
I feed mine once every 3 weeks.
Definetly on a Schedule !
Please explain how/why you feed Every week ?
Harry
How do we feed weekly?
Open the tub and drop rat  goes nom nom nom.
Why feed weekly or more often?
Because they are hungry and enjoy eating weekly, and it's easier to keep them eating consistently.
Jerry Robertson
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Smaller snakes I feed 10% mass method and on a 4/7 days schedule. Adults I feed light meals to often 3-7% with a 7 day frequency. Like Jerry it seems easier to keep them eating than a long gap and bigger meals.
I have also looked a study that suggested that a period of no food followed by a large meal was not as efficient for the snake the digestive system during fasts drops and goes in to a sort of stand by mode, with food it comes back up this takes a period of time ranging from a few hours to a day. The digestive system is not running as efficiently during this build up so there is less nutrition pulled from the prey and more energy is expended. It just seemed logical to use smaller meals and more often and not allow dormancy.
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up to 300ish grams they get fed on a 3day/4day schedule
everyone else is offered on fridays.
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Re: Do you feed on a schedule?
Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl
up to 300ish grams they get fed on a 3day/4day schedule
everyone else is offered on fridays.
 Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! Oh wait.....is it not okay to quote Rebekah Black?
-Joe
1.0 100% Het. Albino
1.0 Pastel
0.1 Fire
1.0 Pinstripe
1.0 Purple Albino Retic
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