How much do your ball pythons weight this year?

[Colonel SB]

That is one amazing pastel jeff.

[BoidKeeper]

Look at that pastel, does it look unhealthy or fat to you? Jeff's not say go with a 5, 7 or 10 day schedual, I don't think he keeps a schedual. He's saying feed them when their hungry. You can make a snake fat if you feed too often and keep it too cold. Proper temps are the key.
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

Snake's don't eat every 5-7 days in the wild. Why do we think they have the mechanisms that say this is the BEST schedule to feed them? Well that's easy. Its the schedule that allows the lay-person to make the FEWEST mistakes.

I'm not a lay person anymore. Neither is Trev. Nor Mykee. Therefore the 5-7 day schedule becomes obsolete. We're not going to make the mistakes that would ALLOW for an animal to be overfed.

Its all about understanding, not about running your mouth saying "power feeding, power feeding, bla bla bla, your bad, your snake's unhealthy etc etc".

Righto.

[mykee]

Allow me to put this into easier terms to comprehend: you have a pet hamster, let's call him Hammy. Now, you love Hammy VERY much. You play with Hammy any opportunity you get. You have a hamster wheel in his cage, a big ball for him to run around your house in, and a cool 'Habitrail' (TM) cage. Now, do you feed Hammy 12 hamster pellets twice a day? No. Because if you did, poor Hammy would be unhappy, possibly malnourished, or maybe rotting from the inside out. What you do do, is fill his little ceramic food dish with all the food that will fit in there, and let him eat when he wants to. He will only eat as much as he wants, and will live a generally happier life this way. Sounds pretty foolhardy to limit the amount of food furry little Hammy gets, doesn't it? Do you love Hammy more than your snakes?....... No? Since it is not possible to fill Monty's or Hiss' little ceramic food dish with live, F/T or F/K mice, rats or?..... what we do as responsible snake owners, if offer them food as often as possible, and they, like the aformentioned Hammy, will only eat what it wants.

[Piebald Guy]

She hit again tonight. A 55 gram rat pup. Two days since the last. Man she's eating good. I'll weigh her tomorrow and post. This one's a keeper for sure.

[mykee]

Congratulations, keep up the good work.

[LORI34205]

how many grams is a pound???

[mykee]

453.59g = 1 pound.

[remsin76]

wait wait...so...as long as i ahve good temps its ok to feed my 3 month old a crawler every 3-4 days???? he certainly can eat one every 4 days no problem.

also, my snake is handled often. i take him out and put him on my desk to roam for about an hour a day. will this "excercise" help him become healthier?? or help him use up his food faster??

[remsin76]

also, feeding a snake a lot will this make him just really really fat? or will this make it longer too???

well humans can eat and eat but we wont grow an inch of height.. haa

[Piebald Guy]

Wow, she deficated for the second time since I had her (picker her up at the show) and I just weighed it. She is 544 grams. She's gained 203 grams since July6. 10 days! And the weight is after defication. Plus she has gained 25-35% additional diameter as well.

I think I might have a mutant snake on my hands. LOL (just kidding, it's nice to get a good eater once in a while).

[sapphire_moon]

like remsin76 asked. If I feed my snake every 3-4 days (she's a little over 3 ft now, and most likely will eat every 3-4 days, she has never refused a meal!) will she just get fat? Or will she also get longer??????

[Jeff_Favelle]

...and thanks ColonelSB!!! It was from Mark Mandic last year!!

[TardGirl]

My 3 year old female bp is about 5 pounds, Is this about right for her size she's a little over 4 feet long, About 7 1/2 inches wide. Does she weigh to much? or not enough? She eats 1 large gerbil or rat a week.

[Piebald Guy]

7-1/2" wide?!?!?!?!?!

Thats just over 25.5" in circumference! Impossible!

Eats one large rat or gerbil per week? If that's true your dancing with danger in the pale moon light. Typically its one way or the other. If you ever had a w/c (i got screwed on two of them now) you will know EXACTLY what I mean. Once you go gerbils it's not impossible, but highly unlikely it will feed on rats without alot of work later. It's also not impossible that the sun will not rise tommorrow as well get it?