Question: The normal weight of a 4 months old ball python

[halfnakedlife]

Hi all,

This is the first time I own a snake as pet. She's a three to four months old pastel ball python that my daughter bonded with at a reptile exhibition. TBH, I would've never got one if it wasn't because of my daughter. She's always fond of reptile and when she held the little one for two days straight...it was clear that my daughter has fell in love with the little thing.
We brought the little python home and she's been staying with us for almost three weeks now. Thanks to google that I found this site and believe me, it was like a God sent. We're able to set her tank and she's comfortably curling up in her hide though we're still trying to improve it. She's a well behaved little snake, active and never hiss at my daughter whenever she handles her. Of course I told my six years old daughter to always handle the snake gently and not to startle by suddenly moving her hands near the head.
Since then we've fed the snake mice four times. I was going to stick to once a week feeding as suggested but I found that she's roaming around the tank in the 3rd or 4th day after. From what I gather here it was a sign that she's hungry (correct me if I'm wrong) so usually on the 5th day I ended up feeding her again. What bother me is she skinny for her age? That she gets hungry easily? Or did I not feed her enough? I just weighed her today and she's about 120gr, is that too skinny? What is the normal healthy weight for a 4 months old ball python?
Please advise.

Pic of our lil snake:

Yesterday's feeding:

The mice:

[Vipera Berus]

Balls grow at their own rate some grow faster than others. Its best to feed them 10-15% of their body weight. So a 120gram snake should be eating a 12-18 gram rodent. I would recommend weekly weighing at the least while their young just so you have a good estimate of how fast their growing.

[CALM Pythons]

Once a week is all you need and your snake looks good to me. My 4 month old is 178Grams but hasn't pooped in 3 weeks.. So it has 3 mice in it..
Your doing good, you can judge what size rodent to feed by the thickest part of the snakes body.. Thats a easy way to do it, My 4 moth old is still on Small mice/med. My 7 month old is on Large mice and he is 259 Grams. He will be eating those for a while....once they are 225 go to a little bigger mouse.
Ball Pythons will come out at night and look around their enclosure. That isnt being hungry, they are just nocturnal. If your Ball is out during the day for several hours surfing the glass then it is stressed... That can mean check your temps ect... Also if that happens cover the entire enclosure with a towel ect..so it doesnt feel exposed and unsafe. With Glass/clear plastic enclosures cover 3 sides with dark paperbor cardboard. That helps with heat and feeling secure.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

It's not about weight it's about overall proportions.

There are too many factors that come into play in the weight of an animal, weight out of the egg which can vary from 40 to 90 grams, how fast the animal start eating some eat the next day after their first shed some may take 6 weeks, prey size out of the egg and there after, feeding frequency some people feed to little, some feed too much, skip meals and fast, and finally the animal itself.

What you want is an healthy animal with good proportion the res is really irrelevant.