Severely nippy BP!

[RedDemon5419]

This female is 16 months old and weighs 400 grams? Once again I am trying to help you out. The smallest female I have at around that age is in excess of 900 grams and I don't powerfeed my animals. If I could make a suggestion with all good intentions? Maybe have a little bit of humility here and realize that something isn't right with the way you are keeping the animal. I am passionate about this species and have spent countless hours with animals from 55 grams to breeding females and for you to tell me that at 400 grams and 16 months old in a female ball python that a medium mouse is as big around as the widest part of her body it is laughable when I just fed off rat pups days ago to animals at 250 grams. Once again, I think continuing to educate yourself on their proper care and being less defensive on constructive criticism will go a long way for both you and the animal. So, to kind of close things out knowing what we all know now that snake is probably hungry and that is a main factor in why the animal is being so defensive.

Of the things I've researched and vary opinions, having a year old ball python seems normal in line between 250 grams and 500 grams. Obviously she's a little older so she could be putting on some more weight, but again, I got her from a petsmart where the feeding charts they gave me were inconsistent with what she was supposedly eating. She was like 170 grams when I got her back in Feb. On the thin side but no where near starving. Her spine was triangle shaped back then and now it's rounded out quite well since I've bulked her up.
I've gotten opinions throughout all sorts of subreddits and forums. I've even asked breeders in youtube comments. "Is she at an okay weight for her size?"
Most if not all of them have said "Yeah she's at a healthy weight, not overly obese or underweight."

This ain't about 'having humility' I've been more than willing to listen to people, and the other responses that I've gotten here I've taken into consideration and stride. I can perfectly disagree with how things should be done with some people too, like I have with you.
I'm more than willing to continue learning, but when you have so many varying opinions on how reptiles should be kept, especially in this community, being told you're wrong when you're doing exactly what other people are doing, (An example being 'Tub vs glass tank' garbage that people love to argue about. Another is a breeder I saw at a reptile show had one year old BPs that were still in small size, and they were fed live but still looked like a hatchling but were perfectly healthy looking.) is going to obviously make people upset, because then you come across as snooty when they're doing things that other breeders and keepers are doing. Each snake is different and just because your ball python is 900 grams at one year, doesn't mean mine has to be as well. Should she be heavier? Probably, and I plan on getting her bulkier because she's closing in on year two now since she's apparently 16 months, because again, I've had to estimate on her birth and how long the store had her for from feeding records until I got her. So in short, I'm planning on improvements with her feeding situation. Her enclosure is perfectly fine the way it is and in no way am I devolving into an 'echo chamber' when you have thousands of opinions of breeders and keepers contradicting one another, I'm taking in as much information as humanly possible.