The most intense gruesome feeding ive witnessed.

[jackiechan]

My lemon pastel ball python weighs in around 650grams and i fed him the other day with a 100gram medium rat. Usually how my bp eats is that he only strikes and constricts the rodent using around 1/3 of his body. This time he struck the rodent and fully wrapped his entire body around the rodent. It was intense to watch.

Next thing i hear is teeth biting/gnawing but i cant see whats going on because the snake is fully wrapped around the rodent. At this point I'm thinking the rat is biting away at my bp. I take my tongs to grab the rats tail and try to wiggle him around so that he can be distracted and this is what i came to see.


I know the risks of feeding live, but i have tried feeding PK and frozen/thawed but he just wont eat. He only eats live. Any suggestions?

[rabernet]

The blood is most likely from the rat. I feed live almost exclusively, and on occasion the kill will be bloody.

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[BrandiR]

Is that blood from the snake or the rat?

[Flikky]

Oh dear. Was the snake injured?

[jackiechan]

My bad i forgot to include in the original post. The blood is from the rat. All came out from the nose and mouth.

[MisterKyte]

Huhu, the snake is most likely fine, rats will just bleed like hell if they get struck near an artery.

Wait until you get one in the 2000+ gram range, my female normal squeezed a rat so hard one of its eyeballs popped out of the poor thing's skull the last time I fed her!

[DooLittle]

Well, maybe he struck and used his whole body to coil because the rat was too big. A medium rat seems too big for a 650 gram snake, imo.

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[jackiechan]

Huhu, the snake is most likely fine, rats will just bleed like hell if they get struck near an artery.

Wait until you get one in the 2000+ gram range, my female normal squeezed a rat so hard one of its eyeballs popped out of the poor thing's skull the last time I fed her!

That's harsh!

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[jackiechan]

Well, maybe he struck and used his whole body to coil because the rat was too big. A medium rat seems too big for a 650 gram snake, imo.

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The store I pick up the day from says it's a medium rat. I weighed it and it was 100 grams exactly. Giving my bp is around 650+ grams, 100grams is right around 15% body weight.

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[snakesRkewl]

The store I pick up the day from says it's a medium rat. I weighed it and it was 100 grams exactly. Giving my bp is around 650+ grams, 100grams is right around 15% body weight.

100 gram rat is too big of a meal for a 650 gram snake IMO.

10% would be a 65 gram rat, just about perfect for a weekly meal.