Feeding Adults

[Rapture]

So, ever since I joined this site I learned that adult ball pythons only need to eat "small rats." What I don't understand is, does that mean one rat per week, or more than one instead of feeding a larger rat?

[Adam_Wysocki]

As a general rule, my biggest adult girls get one "small small" rat per week ... but when I have extras, in the fall when I'm adding weight to girls, after egg laying, etc, are all times where I will double up my biggest girls ... adult boys never get doubled.

Hope this helps.

-adam

[lord jackel]

As a general rule, my biggest adult girls get one "small small" rat per week ... but when I have extras, in the fall when I'm adding weight to girls, after egg laying, etc, are all times where I will double up my biggest girls ... adult boys never get doubled.

Hope this helps.

-adam

Adam...in your terms what is "small small" for us size challenged what is that in inches or grams?

Thanks

[Adam_Wysocki]

Adam...in your terms what is "small small" for us size challenged what is that in inches or grams?

Thanks

Sorry about that ... "small small" is something I've been using on the forum for years, I forget about all the new people sometimes ... "Small smalls" are what I call rats that are between a wean and what the industry considers a small ... 40 - 45 grams maybe? ... I'm not much for scales so I'm guessing.

Hope that helps.

-adam

[lord jackel]

Sorry about that ... "small small" is something I've been using on the forum for years, I forget about all the new people sometimes ... "Small smalls" are what I call rats that are between a wean and what the industry considers a small ... 40 - 45 grams maybe? ... I'm not much for scales so I'm guessing.

Hope that helps.

-adam

Cool...thanks

[Rapture]

As a general rule, my biggest adult girls get one "small small" rat per week ... but when I have extras, in the fall when I'm adding weight to girls, after egg laying, etc, are all times where I will double up my biggest girls ... adult boys never get doubled.

Hope this helps.

-adam

Thanks Adam, that is exactly the information I was looking for!