Quote Originally Posted by Jeanne
Also Adam- how come you have zero off feed, are all your bp's in thier own room that is set up differently than our own homes would be, meaning, is the ambient temps in where you keep them more thoroughly controlled?
I have zero off feed for a couple of reasons. First, I keep my balls warmer than most of the recommendations I've seen on this site. A warm ball python is a hungry ball python. Second, I feed much smaller meals each week than most novice or intermediate keepers do. Smaller meals make a more consistent feeder. And third (I'm not sure if I'm even allowed to say this :mrgreen I feed live. Live feeders have MUCH better feeding responses, especially this time of year.

That said, I do keep my snakes in a commercial facility where the temperature and humidity is very precisely controlled, but even the snakes that I am purposely cooling for breeding are eating.

I very very rarely have a ball python fast. When it does happen it's ususally only new arrivals that haven't been in the collection long. Within a season or two, they learn the drill and figure out what time it is!

-adam