Is it safe to feed a BP a frog

[elevatethis]

If you want to give your BP some dietary variety, try gerbils. Then you can ask how to get the BP off of gerbils before you go broke.

Trying to think of a nice way to say this...but that's not very good advice...I think there's a little bit of sarcasm in there, though.

Ball pythons are imprint feeders and don't need any "variety" in their diet.

They get all the nutrients they'll ever need from a diet on one type of rodent prey.

Switching things up on them, including the type of prey, is not a good idea with ball pythons. Some handle it better than others (I have a bp that will eat mice or rats any time, any place), but it is generally a better to find one thing that works for you, whether it be mice, rats, gerbils, or elephants, and stick to it.

[drew5337]

Hmmm...elephants. Good bone density, so I'd imagine you'd see quick growth. Does RodentPro stock them yet?

[Gooseman]

my boa ate an elephant once... must have had a bad aftertaste as she only eats democrats now...

[MeMe]

So in short if your post don't help out in a way that is what we admire in thread that is asking a question best to leave the teaching to someone that can.

Post of the DAY!!!



I enjoyed the whole post Ed...but this was the BEST part!

[MelissaFlipski]

Then its a good thing when your were asking questions about flea bombs, and boas sheds, and boa eye problems that someone with more tolerance, and the knowledge you were after didn't consider your questions dumb.



Let me think.......

Oh I got it because they didn't know any better


And where would you be if someone had just said you know what thats just dumb. Let him fea bomb the house with the snakes in it and when he comes back in two weeks saying "my snakes died" then they'll know.


Yea maybe.. But I don't find it funny. In the future you might want to remember that you were asking "dumb" questions yourself in the not so distant past and that had our mentality been as "survival of the fittest" as yours was here it might have cost you the lives of your pets.

So in short if your post don't help out in a way that is what we admire in thread that is asking a question best to leave the teaching to someone that can.

Amen!

Trying to think of a nice way to say this...but that's not very good advice...I think there's a little bit of sarcasm in there, though.

Ball pythons are imprint feeders and don't need any "variety" in their diet.

They get all the nutrients they'll ever need from a diet on one type of rodent prey.

Switching things up on them, including the type of prey, is not a good idea with ball pythons. Some handle it better than others (I have a bp that will eat mice or rats any time, any place), but it is generally a better to find one thing that works for you, whether it be mice, rats, gerbils, or elephants, and stick to it.

Yes, I was kidding. Sorry, if I was out of line.

Hmmm...elephants. Good bone density, so I'd imagine you'd see quick growth. Does RodentPro stock them yet?

No. That's PachydermPro.

[monk90222]

Hmmm...elephants. Good bone density, so I'd imagine you'd see quick growth. Does RodentPro stock them yet?

They probably would, but the shipping is outrageous!

[pythontricker]

no not at all

[pythontricker]

my boa ate an elephant once... must have had a bad aftertaste as she only eats democrats now...

ahh thats goood stuff. lol

[python.princess]

If you want to give your BP some dietary variety, try gerbils. Then you can ask how to get the BP off of gerbils before you go broke.

i've heard that gerbils are more defensive/aggressive towards bps- therefore, more dangerous...

[Ginevive]

I have a low tolerence for dumb questions. Why would some one in thier right mind even consider feeding a frog to a Snake???

Let them do it, then 2 weeks later he can post and say "After I fed my snake the frog it died."

Myabe im an *******, but oh well.

Um.. for one thing, there Are snakes out there that eat frogs. For another thing.. heck, when I was a beginner, I didn't know that BPs do not eat frogs. The person came here asking an honest question and I see no reason to call them DUMB. What would be dumb, would be for them not to ask.. and just assume it could be done.
Sigh.