Quote Originally Posted by Fireproof View Post
What is the "look"? How do you know that's from hunger and not stress or curiosity or something else?

Anyway - like others said - feeding every day or as much as they will eat is not good. Some will over eat. Snakes can become overweight in captivity.

They need time to digest between feedings and you as their keeper need to make sure they aren't being overfed. Every 4-5 days is fine for a small and growing young ball python. If prey size is small, sometimes you might feed 2 in a single feeding. (Not desirable, but it's done). Like El-ziggy above, I'll adjust based on prey size. I'll target 4-5 days between feedings, but it might be a bit sooner if I went with a smaller than typical one, or a bit later if a big one. Of course now, I'm on F/T bought from RodentPro online, so it's pretty consistent.
I don't know for sure that it's hunger, you're absolutely right and it could just be curiosity (they did just recently get switched from tanks to tubs). I sincerely hope my babies aren't stressed. All their temps and humidity are spot on, and I never over handle them.

Some of them are rescues, and were severely underfed, could this be contributing to it? And in the case of an underfed snake, is waiting the 4-5 days still ideal? Sorry for so many questions, I just wanna make sure I do everything I possibly can do right.