This isn't about how much a snake can or should be fed but rather about the rats themselves. How do you judge the size of your rats? What I mean by this is what do you qualify as a wean, small, med, large? I know alot of people say they go to the pet store and ask for medium rats and that is what they feed their snakes. However, I went to a pet store here locally and bought one small, med and large and weighed all of them.
small=62g
med=122g
lg=145g

now to me the small is a weaned rat, the med was a largish small and the lg was a small med. I really don't weigh our snakes prey items but a large is obviously a large rat, one that is capable of breeding, and a medium is close to breeding size. It just kinda confuses me sometimes when you see people talking about feeding a 600g snake a medium rat. In my book there is no way a snake that size can eat a medium rat, well at least not MY mediums.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


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