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im wonder how often do you feed your ball pythons? once a week or once every 10 days?
mine are averaging every 10 to 15 days.....
my smaller one puja is eating about every 7 days.....

I feed my little girl once a week. The food items that I give are about ten to fifteen percent of her body weight. (I'm horrible at guessing the comparison of her diameter to the rat's diameter.) When she crawls out of the paper bag where I feed her, I can discern where the food is in her body about half the time if I look very closely. Other times, I can't tell where the food is. I'm not that experienced, so I'm sharing my guesses rather than expert advice. The fact that my little girl is growing makes me think that I'm not hurting her with what I'm doing.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

In general - once a week - sometimes life gets in the way and they get fed late - but usually every 7-10 days.
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

6.34.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)
0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.4 frogs rescued from pool skimmer
0.0.0 Lizards of unknown origin

ok thats about how mine go, but durga 10 to 14 days, but he does eat bigger prey than the other 2, im pretty sure that has a part in how often he eats.
im also wondering as the weather gets warmer and longer if their appetitte increases

It depends on the time of year for me but I usually feed my females every 5-7 days and my males every 10 days. This keeps my weights up on my girls and the weights on my males down a little. Thanks Erick

We usually feed every 7 days, unless, as Tosha says, life gets in the way. We don't try to feed again until the next week, even for those who didn't eat.
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Alice Cobb

Once a week for adults at least that is what I offer, and babies are offered twice a week.
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Nita Hamilton
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