I recently learned that a regular customer of ours who buys one mouse every week has a ball python. He swear his four year old, four foot snake looks perfectly healthy on its diet of one mouse every seven to ten days. He does come in regularly, I see him just about every week, but I am having a hard time believing his snake (if it is a ball) is doing well on just one of our mice a week (our mice are not large).



So, since he swears it's fine and I have my doubts, I decided to ask you folks who have the most experience and have seen many more balls than I have.



Is it possible for an adult, four foot ball python to be healthy and well fed on just one mouse a week?



~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)

0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)

1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)

1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)

0.1 bunny (Spazz)

1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)

2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)

1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)

1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)

2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)

1.0 goat (Billy Jack)

1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)



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