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    Large meals?

    Im a not new to ball python keeping but I got a new pretty girl from petsmart, whom I barely considered them a source for healthy reptiles, but I fell in love with my new pastel python and couldn't just leave her there anyhoo... she wasn't eating for the three months while she was there because they only feed frozen. so we brought her home and let her get acclimated to her new tank for two days then I bought fuzzies for her and my fiance's olive house snake... needless to say I gave her as many as she would take and she ate all 6...my question now its been 7 days and she hasn't pooped yet but she is searching her tank should I feed her? I feel like I should wait till she poos at least once? What do you guys think?

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    Repost on Large Meals? To feed or not to feed?


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    Re: Large meals?

    If by fuzzy you mean fuzzy mice than you need to up the size of prey items. Also they poo when they need to and should be fed every 5-7 days for that age/size animal. A lot wait to poo til they shed. At her size she should be feeding on crawler rats at the smallest

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    If she hasn't eaten in 3 months, it's best to feed smaller meals then gradually increase to regular portioned meals.
    And you don't have to wait for a poop. Some ball pythons poop once a month and only when they shed, but are fed once a week. And since yours has been underfed, she'll be absorbing as much food as possible now, so you might not get that much poop yet.

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    Re: Large meals?

    Mine poops about every other week and i feed once every 7 days. They go when they want

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    Re: Large meals?

    Im not sure about the rats she had a lot of trouble getting the fuzzies I brought home knocked out let a lone dead .... like she tried to eat one sideways and it kicked the whole way down

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    Re: Large meals?

    A hatchling ball will eat a fuzzy mouse if it is a small hatchling as a full meal. The second meal is generally a rat pup and so on. They can eat items quite a bit larger than you may think. Also if it is having trouble killing them you should try ft.

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    Re: Large meals?

    Petsmart was trying ft and she wouldn't take it and I offered frozen first but she didn't want anything to do with it also after calling around no one by me has pups for her

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    I've always preferred buying pups though my new pretty girl is just really dumb eating and about not falling off her branches

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