My Ball python is under weight!!!

[chrid16371]

There's no way a 106g snake puts down a small rat. I think your scale is messed up. Make sure your scale is on a flat level surface, every time you go to weigh put a nickel on your scale first and it should read 5 grams.

If your snake was really 106g at 4 months that is fine, age has nothing to do with it. I have a 8 month old that weighs 200g and came from a reputable breeder and she eats the correct size meal and has not missed a meal in the 3 or so months I've owned her and according to the breeder hasn't missed a meal for him except her very first.

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[dkatz4]

I don't know BP's but i do know electronics and I'm going to second the above posts in suggesting that the scale is off. Some need to go through a calibration before using, some are especially sensitive to the surface they are sitting on, and some are just defective.
Seems like a lot of folks get very tied up with weight. I suppose it can be important when breeding, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) if your talking about a non breeding pet I feel like if it moves well, eats, sheds, poops, and is round, you're pretty much good.

[BMorrison]

My 1700+ female and 1500+ male eat small rats. I got 200-300's on fuzzy's pups up and so on and so forth. At 104 there's no way he's putting down a 60+g rat of any kind.


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[Hannahshissyfix]

Did you have the snake on a bowl to weigh it and forget to tare the weight of the bowl off after the feeding when you reweighed?

[Hannahshissyfix]

Did you have the snake on a bowl to weigh it and forget to tare the weight of the bowl off after the feeding when you reweighed?

[MrKai]

There's no way a 106g snake puts down a small rat. I think your scale is messed up. Make sure your scale is on a flat level surface, every time you go to weigh put a nickel on your scale first and it should read 5 grams.

If your snake was really 106g at 4 months that is fine, age has nothing to do with it. I have a 8 month old that weighs 200g and came from a reputable breeder and she eats the correct size meal and has not missed a meal in the 3 or so months I've owned her and according to the breeder hasn't missed a meal for him except her very first.

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Agreed! Mine weighs like 250grams still eating fuzzys maybe a bit bigger

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[Rbeckwood1]

I'm 100% sure it was a small rat. No doubt at all! I'm going to reweigh her once I get home. If you guys want me too I will happily offer her the same meal as she had last time after this one fully digest. I know the difference between the rats at first I would feed her rat pups. The only reason I got a small rat was because the rat pups were out!

[redshepherd]

I'm 100% sure it was a small rat. No doubt at all! I'm going to reweigh her once I get home. If you guys want me too I will happily offer her the same meal as she had last time after this one fully digest. I know the difference between the rats at first I would feed her rat pups. The only reason I got a small rat was because the rat pups were out!

Most likely just a broken scale. But if it would help clear things up for the thread, taking a picture of your BP next to a ruler, and then taking a picture of the small rat next to a ruler (separate pics, so the BP won't flip out into feeding mode), would help!

[Fraido]

Most likely just a broken scale. But if it would help clear things up for the thread, taking a picture of your BP next to a ruler, and then taking a picture of the small rat next to a ruler (separate pics, so the BP won't flip out into feeding mode), would help!

Definitely do this, I'm not believing it was a small rat either, not unless you have a much larger snake than your scale is suggesting.