Scientific approach to feeding?

[Annarose15]

I have found that feeding multiple smaller meals weekly keeps them eating more consistently than feeding large meals.
2 meals a week equaling about 15% of body weight to growing snakes and 2 meals equaling about 10% of weight for adult snakes.

I never feed jumbos to any ball pythons, especially males but even females only get fed smalls or mediums when they are adults.
Feed them too large and watch them go on crazy month long refusals, not any more...

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The 15% "rule" applies more to hatchlings and up to 500g (snake) or so. My 1400g male gets one 50-60g rat per week. My 3000g female gets the same, with roughly one out of four meals being a medium rat (80-120g).

Edit: The reason everyone sees this "rule" posted so often on this site (IMO) is that the people who are usually asking what to feed their BPs just bought a hatchling from a pet store, show, etc. - Not a full-grown adult.