Quote Originally Posted by NickMyers03
actually you feed a little more than your snakes girth so that he has a small bulge after feeding.
Actually you don't. I never want to see a bulge when I feed, if I have, I've overfed.

Smaller appropriately sized weekly meals will lead to a more consistently feeding snake (I have sixteen ball pythons in my collection that ate the entire winter, I did not experience the dreaded "winter fast" with any of mine).

Mine consistently put on 75 to 100 grams a month during their first year of growth.

Ball pythons are opportunistic feeders and if given the chance WILL eat more than they require. That will lead to more frequent food refusals over the course of a year, often for a few weeks to a few months at a time.

As I said before, just because they can, doesn't mean that they should. Most ball pythons in captivity are overfed. They certainly don't get 52 meals a year in their natural environment.