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    You don't want to move her up in size of prey too quickly. Her body / organs might be damaged from the malnourishment. Keep it small, and once a week should be ok as long as she keeps it down. She is VERY thin, scary thin. I'm not sure what a vet could do for you honestly, in comparison to added stress from the visit. Try not to handle her except for necessary handling. Cleaning the cage, weighing etc. I would probably suggest keeping a close eye on her weight, maybe once a week or once every two weeks. I don't have any first hand experience with nursing snakes back from malnourishment, but those are the tips I've seen thus far. Hopefully someone with more hands-on knowledge will chime in.

    Mice should be fine if she will readily accept them.

    That poor baby

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    Re: Malnourished ball: Frost

    thank you for the advice. i will switch her back to mice and try to feed her again on thursday. think we'll save the vet trip for when she starts to perk up. we currently do not have a scale, do you have any recomendations on a good scale? would a kitchen food scale work fine?

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