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The key to making sure you're feeding your ball python correctly is to keep tabs on its physical condition and adjust meal size/frequency accordingly.
Mar 16, 2023 — You can try a reptile electrolyte soak, and soak it for 30 min couple times a week. Then try to feed it. If feeding day is Friday, soak Tues & ...
Through the first year OR until the snake reaches approximately 750g, whichever happens first: feed 10%-15% of the snake's weight every ~7 days.
Aug 25, 2024 — One golden rule for feeding is to match the prey size to your snake's body size. Offer prey about 1.5–2 times the thickness of the snake's ...
Never force-feed a dehydrated animal. If the skin is bunchy and wrinkly, soak the snake in water a couple of times a day, and leave a humidity box (plastic ...
40 grams would be a decent meal for him, 7-10 days apart until 500-600 grams. Biweekly on small rats after that is fine.
Jan 15, 2019 — How often should a Ball python be fed? · As hatchlings, I feed every five to seven days for a good six or seven months. · Then I change it to ...
Jan 27, 2025 — Generally, smaller or younger ball pythons need to eat every five days, while larger ones usually eat once every week or two.
by A NICOLS · 1879 — The attack of a constrictor, at all events in confinement, is very often unsuccessful; but perhaps this may be because the reptile is not hungry.
Ball Pythons are carnivores, which means that they need a diet of whole prey animals in order to get the complete nutrition that their bodies need.
Due to this, it is one of the most economically important reptiles worldwide. In very rare cases, reticulated pythons have killed and swallowed adult humans.
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Constrictor species like boas and pythons, as well as adult king snakes and corn snakes, usually eat prey such as mice, rats, gerbils, small birds, and hamsters ...