Feeding advice?
I have been growing paranoid about the amounts I'm feeding my dear snakes. I get so many mixed answers. Some places say I should be feeding my adult ball large rats, another says I should be feeding her medium rats. I'm just so confused now even after being pretty confident about my choices before.
See, I know have three snakes, which I will be listing here in a bit. I need some advice on how much I should be feeding each. We tend to keep feeding day all the same for each (usually on mondays) and each of my babies have pretty good feeding responses. The problem is I'm not sure if I'm feeding enough or too much. So, I weighed them all today, and gave them good soaks to check their scales and general health before posting here.
First is Glitch, our adult ball python. A local breeder suggested, for a full grown ball, to feed a medium rat every week (7 days). I was feeding her large rats before, but was experiencing a small bit of lack of feeding response. Now she's hitting them dead on every time but I'm not sure if her weight is right. Her weight, as of today, is 2,164 grams.
Second is Mouse, our young BCI. Now, she has a pretty strong feeding response and shes only ever refused once. Their body type is very different from Glitch's and sometimes I think we might be feeding her too much, but other times I'm not sure if it's enough. I know it's hard to overfeed a growing snake, but I just want to be sure. She weighed in at 106 grams today. I was told she was a year old when we got her, but that seems kinda small for that age in my mind tbh.
Last is Byte, our very young corn snake. We got him on sale on black Friday. Don't really know how old he is but he's pretty small (assuming it's a male). I've been working on socializing him because he's a bit flighty, but that seems like normal behavior for a corn snake. Anyway, he weighed in at a whopping 6 grams today.
Thank you all for your help and time!
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