My ball python is now about 2 ft and has been eating mice up until now. My question is when should i switch him to larger prey and what kind of prey should it be.
Thanks!
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Feeding? Rodent size?
austin189
Dec 17, 2008 04:27 PM
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brianlovescheese
Dec 17, 2008 04:36 PM
Pizza, I feed mine all pizza hut meat lovers. Nah, jk I feed most mice until I think they can handle bigger but I never go overboard. You can buy mice and rats in different sizes so just a good rule of thumb is no bigger than the diameter of your animal.
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jyohe
Dec 17, 2008 08:09 PM
try 2 mice once a week or every 5 days...
or a small rat or so...small medium even?...
just look at the gut on the nerd lemon jungle pic below.....
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mykee
Dec 17, 2008 08:09 PM
A foot ago...
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J35J
Dec 18, 2008 07:23 AM
A decent rule of thumb...if you feed your snake and 3-4 hours later you go look at your snake and you can't tell he ate anything then its time to move up. I like to see a lump in my snakes belly for most of that day that I fed him. In other words the mouse/rat should be least the size around as the fat part of the snake.
Jason
