I do not believe I am, however I just decided to post on here to get other opinions.
I have a 4-5 foot female, at her thickest point she's about 3-4 inches around? I do not know her exact weight. About 3 years old. She eats 2 small rats every 8-10 days usually, unless she decides to eat a third sm. rat from time to time. By the time her next feeding comes aound, she's usually passed what's left of her last feed.
I was thinking about bumping her up to 1 sm. rat and 1 med. rat instead of the 2 sm. rats, because lately she's been wanting that 3rd sm. rat during feeding.
So what do you all think?
Also I recently "rescued" a baby ball python from a shop where I was vacationing. They had the poor thing in a tiny, plastic critter cage, with no proper heating, no water, no substrate, and they hadn't fed it because they didn't know what it ate.
Poor thing was about as skinny as a rail I didn't think it'd make it very long after I bought it and set it up in a nice habitat.
As of now, it's been drinking and soaking. No signs of mites, ticks, upper resp. problems, or mouth rot and it ate 2 of my home bred fuzzie mice, along with a hopper mouse. So all-in-all it seems to be doing alright.
I was going to feed it a single small mouse but I was afraid because of how underweight the snake was that digesting a few smaller prey items would be better then a single larger one.
Any suggestions on how to help this little guy pack on some weight. Now that it's been digesting it's last meal for a few days I can no longer see the snake's spine or ribs, but he's still a smidge on the skinny side.
Sorry about the long post, but anyway thanks in advance for any advice you give.
