Is she healthy weight wise?

[Orangephoner]

So I just got a scale and I'm wondering if my bp has a healthy weight and if she is growing well. So she is 165g and 22 in long and I got her last october as a baby at the pet store so I'm assuming 1-2 months old when I got her? So that would make her around 11 months old? Does that all seem healthy?
Christian

[Daybreaker]

Sounds a bit on the light side to me, what was she eating back in October to now and how often?

[Orangephoner]

When I bought her they had her on f/t pinkys. She is eating rat pups now. I just started trying live cause she lost interest in f/t. Along time ago she went 2 months without eating and she just barely went 3 weeks without. But she instantly goes for the live. I feed her every 7 days. Any suggestions on fattening her up?

Christian

[Daybreaker]

She was on rat or mice pinkies? If mice, that's probably a little why she's not bigger by now: those have nothing in them to allow baby bps to gain weight.

Rat pups sound fine for her, I'd put her on a 5 day schedule myself.

[Orangephoner]

They were mice pinkys. Tiny little guys. So I should try a rat pup every 5 days untill she gets bigger?

Christian

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Well, for a comparison, I have a clutch that just hatched May 6th. The hatch weight was roughly 65 grams give or take. My best eater of the 7 is a male who is now 100+ grams at 11 weeks old.. He has eaten nothing but furred rat pups since 2 days after his first shed and every 4 days after.

Pinky mice are much too small for a ball python hatchling unless it's an unusually small hatchling. I would definitely recommend getting your little one on rat hoppers, or something between a furred pup and a hopper size, and on a 5 day schedule.

You can feed it anything that is not much bigger around than the widest part of the snake. Baby balls can take fairly large meals. If there is no visible feed lump after feeding the meal was too small.

Here is my big 11 week old boy taking a pup (while deep in shed too). You can kind of tell how large it was by the size of the neck bulge in relation to the rats feet.




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[I-KandyReptiles]

A good idea is to offer a prey item 10-15% of their body weight

[travis11]

That sounds really light to me. I got a 13 week old BP that is now 153 grams. Rat regimen ASAP

[sprockett]

My girlfriends 4 month old pastel weighs 173 grams...just weighed it..so 11 month old at 165 might be a bit light to say the least..sounds like he been under fed..wich is very common with Bp new owners..Bp are amazing eaters..out of the egg they eat mice hoppers or rat pups...my 2 month old is on large rat pups every 5 days...my advice is up the food intake to proper size item..hope this helps...thnx

[L.West]

I have a female bp that is 11 months old and she currently weighs 786 grams so yes, I would say that your snake is very small.