Let's Discuss Dietary Requirements for Ball Pythons

[Kaorte]

How long does it take a ball python to digest an "appropriately" size meal?

What does that length tell us about the metabolism of a ball python? What does the speed of metabolism tell us about their dietary requirements?

If a psammophylax acutus - a fairly active African colubrid - digests a meal in under 48 hours and a ball python which is fairly inactive takes 10 to 14 days, what logical conclusion could we draw from that?

That they really don't NEED to eat every 7 days! ~gasp~



I remember a guy at NARBC giving a talk about his feeding habits and it went a little something like this... "when I remember" LOL