Quote Originally Posted by that_dc5 View Post
Your snake is not small because it is feeding on mice instead of rats. Rats aren't a super food, they are just an overall better meal. I have female ball pythons weighing over 2,000 grams that eat L-XL mice once a week and they are doing fine. So I don't see why your snake is so small at that age. Have you had it for most it's life? Or did you recently acquire it and was told it was that old? How's its husbandry? Even on large mice, I don't see why a snake would be so small at that old. Some of my hatchlings are half that weight and get up to that size within just a couple months. Very weird.
I got him in July from a breeder in my area who told me he was born the first week of March. Now this is someone who had THOUSANDS of balls and probably has no idea how old. So I just went with what they told me. My husbandry is amazing. I have a T8. The ambient air is 82-85, humidity is 55% and hot spot is 92. He eats np at all. He was fed 2 hoppers for the first 2 months I had him and the person I got him from was trying to feed fuzZies. I switched to large mice after he declined a small rat and that was 2 months ago.


Sent from my iPhone 5S using Tapatalk