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Re: How's this for 3-4 months growth?
 Originally Posted by rufretic
Lol, you guys are too funny! I didn't say she was a bad eater, just not my best, I have some piggies lol. When they are small I feed twice a week. Prey size moves up fairly quickly and I go to once a week at about 400g or when they are taking large enough prey that I think they need the extra time to digest. This girl took every offering except when shes been in shed. I let them decide. I have a couple that never skip, including getting seconds when others decide not to eat. Now those are my good eaters! My best just so happens to be my favorite as well, my pastel desert ghost. She was 700g when I got her, around spring this year, she is now approaching 2000g  I love that beautiful little piggy, wish I had a before and after of her. I've never seen a ball python grow so quick, reminds me of how my retics were.
Funny you say that...
My pastel desert ghost is the SAME way !!! A truly bottomless pit. She takes it all, too. Her f/t rats with gusto. Hatchlings didn't want their live rat fuzzies? Arjana ate them ALL , like popcorn.
Hatchlings refused some f/t rat fuzzies, hey, Arjana snacks on them. Even the ones that were stone cold. Sheesh.
And I cannot feed others without feeding her, too. Which is annoying.
Yesterday I fed my pastel Enchi which is ravenous after laying her clutch of eggs. Arjana ate 3 days ago. But she was HANGRY last night (hungry angry) She smelt the food that Ember got and she started pushing with her face much like I've heard Retics do.
OMG, what a drama queen. I was afraid she might damage her face.
It would have been very easy to "power feed" her. But I don't believe in doing that, but she makes it difficult to keep her on a "normal" schedule. She wants food all the time. Any food.
LOL
Maybe they come from the same kind of bottomless pail genes ??
Last edited by zina10; 09-24-2017 at 07:14 PM.
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