Ball python weigth not enough for age?

[HugoAB]

Hello,
My female bumblebee ball python is currently about 4.5 months old and weighting 175g.

At first I was feeding an adult mouse every 5 days, but now I'm doing it every 7 days to feed the same day as I feed my boa. I'm a little worried, since I saw a chart that said most bp's are averaging about 230gr at 4 months old. Am I underfeeding her? She has only missed a meal because I went out of town and left her with someone that didn't want to feed a rodent haha, but she's an amazing eater with an amazing FR.

Thank you so much

[TurkeyPython]

Nope. She's fine. As long as the prey you're feeding her is about the same size as her girth she's fine. That's not a bad weight and it's better to slightly underfeed a snake than to overfeed at all

[Meerna]

I wouldn't say so. There can't really be a feeding chart for snakes, they all grow at their own rate. She may have been a very small hatchling. If your husbandry is good and the mice aren't too small, I don't see a problem.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Forget size charts they is no accuracy and there is no such a thing, the weight of an animal depends on weight straight out of the egg, prey size, feeding frequency, how fast the animal is started and food refusal.

For example a healthy animal that hatch at 40 grams, starting to eat 4 weeks after hatching, getting started on large fuzzy to small hopper would be a lot smaller at 4 months than an hatchling hatching out at 90 grams starting to eat a small adult mouse the day after they hatch.

What matter is overall body condition / proportion and the fact that the animal actually eat.

[CALM Pythons]

Thats a good weight. If she was 100G I'd say theres a problem. My Male is 6.5 months and 250G. My Female is 3.5 months and 150G.