HeadSetJones
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Any one have a Munson type feeding schedule but for Ball Pythons?
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Munson Plan.
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Blue Apple Herps
aka Matthew, PhD
Feed them a prey item that is as big as the widest part of your snakes body once a week. I stop at small rats, sometimes medium rats for the really big girls. Do this and your snake will be fine. Don't obsess over weights or anything. Just feed them once a week an appropriately sized rodent and nothing to sweat.
AliCat37
Michelle's Candied Corns!
Blue Apple is right. Small to Medium rats is the largest you'll ever need to feed a ball python. 10% of their body weight is also something I have heard tossed around, but I don't follow that.
I weighed my ball once in his life and I have no idea what he's at right now. I give him one adult ASF a week and it works out perfectly. (ASF adults are about the size of small rats.)
I weighed my ball once in his life and I have no idea what he's at right now. I give him one adult ASF a week and it works out perfectly. (ASF adults are about the size of small rats.)
Kokopelli
Resident Boa Fanatic
Once a week because they tend to get into feeding strikes?
Working with Boas, I know for a fact that less is more... and big meals every 2 weeks for adult females and 4-5 weeks for males gets wonderful results... and Boas are a deal more active than BP's.
This is further proved by BHB's experiment which showed how baby cornsnakes from the same clutch reacted to different feeding regiments... the ones that ate more, per greater length of time, were the ones to grow most considerably.
What stands behind the recommendation to feed boids(in this case, BP's) at a rate you'd feed a cornsnake(colubrid)?
Working with Boas, I know for a fact that less is more... and big meals every 2 weeks for adult females and 4-5 weeks for males gets wonderful results... and Boas are a deal more active than BP's.
This is further proved by BHB's experiment which showed how baby cornsnakes from the same clutch reacted to different feeding regiments... the ones that ate more, per greater length of time, were the ones to grow most considerably.
What stands behind the recommendation to feed boids(in this case, BP's) at a rate you'd feed a cornsnake(colubrid)?