Rats and Mice have very little proven nutritional difference to a snake.Originally Posted by Inknsteel
Stick with feeding something you have readily available, usually mice or rats. I would advise strongly against giving your snake a "treat" or a gerbil or any other kind of prey that you wouldn't be willing to buy weekly for the rest of the snake's life. By feeding something like that, it's a possibility that your bp may not want to switch back to the mice or rats you were feeding before. They get all the nutrition they need from a balanced diet of rat...
Feed what you have available, or what size they need. The snake should be eating prey about the same thickness as the thickest point on the body once a week, if a mouse is too small, get a weanling rat. Do not attempt to feed a small rat to a ball python that is not relatively grown. You will never feed anything larger than a small rat..
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