https://community.morphmarket.com/t/...ed-sooner/2530
Ok so this is a thread about growing up a bp faster without power feeding. The original thread from this is on morphmarket but I wanted to see your guys's opinions. What Mike Willbank says is that feeding a ball python a 20g meal every day instead of a 100g meal every 5 days will keep the snakes metabolic system revved up and therefore causing it to grow faster, without the harmful side effects of powerfeeding. He tested this out with a baby pinstripe, and his results are as follows,
"I purchased the 70 gram snake in August of that year. He had just hatched. By mid November he was 650 grams and breeding. He produced 10 ovulations that year and I think Brian and most people were shocked that I was competing with him the next season after purchasing the baby. The conventional wisdom had been that I should be breeding him the next year."
There is much controversy in the replies (mainly two people not reading and being toxic.) but Mike says there has been no detrimental effects to his snakes and he only does this until they are breeding size. In fact the snakes grow even faster because the smaller meals require less energy to digest. Id like to see what people here think about this. I personally think that this is an actually good idea as it:
1. Grows the bps up faster so they can breed sooner
2. requires less energy to digest their meals
3. more closely mirrors their feeding in the wild
(KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS WAS ONLY DONE WITH MALES)
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