Quote Originally Posted by cosnakeguy
I'll check my husbandry again, but I had one question about what you said. These snakes are still small, around 300 grams each. Are they still looking for mates at that size/age?
There ya go. Small rats are way too big for bp's that size. Not that they can't eat them...but if you want regular, consistently eating snakes, then you'll want to keep the prey size much smaller. I didn't move up to small rats until my bp was well over 600g.

And I have noticed that whenever I've offered her a larger-than-normal meal, she'll take it just fine...but then often not eat for 2-3 weeks afterwards. A fully grown BP can live and thrive very well on nothing but a small rat offered weekly.....so for a 300g bp, a small rat is a huge meal. My money is on the two of them just playing "catch up" and they'll be hungry again in a week or two. My advice is to use rat fuzzies until they are at least 500g.