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RE: ball python- over eating?

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Posted by: JenHarrison at Sat Aug 18 22:06:11 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JenHarrison ]  
   

You need to be regulating how much and how often he eats, not letting him decide. He will easily send himself into obesity if you don't monitor his food intake.



The other side to that is that with your feeding schedule, he is in a constant state of digestion with no rest period. It takes a LOT of energy and is not good for them to constantly have a full stomach. Instead of feeding one mouse every day or every other day, try feeding him 2-3 mice every 7 days so that it's done and overwith all at once and he has a week to digest it. Better yet, get him switched to appropriately sized rats -- mice offer little nutrition and that may be one reason why he's constantly looking for food.
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