Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
are there health issues to be expected?

just a few days ago i watched a video by perhistoricpetsTV on how to control growth of reticulated pythons by controlling the amount of food.

still, the weight is seriously off. a hopper mouse per month is just not enough, not even if you want the snake to grow slowly.
Besides being very small for her age, I haven't noticed any health concerns. Active, plenty of tongue flicking. She's not "thin" by any means, just very very small.

Yeah I've heard of controlling the size of the snake by minimalistic feeding but I agree this goes way beyond that.

I will start her on a smaller sized prey item than I normally would for a ball her size. I'm thinking a small sized weanling ~30g every 5 days and move onward from there.

Oh BTW she's been checked for any internal parasites (the breeder I get her from does a fecal check on all new arrivals and continues periodically) and she's clean. Of course in quarantine still though