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ok got me a BP today. they said she eats 1 mouse every saturday, hmmm....the mouse looks little bit tinier than her body. should i feed anything else? i know with corns, it has to be 1 1/2 times bigger than the biggest part of the snake. what comes after mouse? rat pinkies? are they bigger than mice? or should i just feed her 2? please any response ??
 
The prey Item should be about the same size as the biggest part of your snake. (give or take) As far as how many items, in my experiences my yearlings (bearly) ate alot 6-9 feeders a week they grew accordingly. now they eat one baby (small) rat every 5 days.

Good luck
 
Sounds like this is your first Ball! Congratulations!

I emailed you some links to some outstanding caresheets. Good luck and have fun!
 
I feed 99% of my balls rats/rat pups.

Hatchlings get rat pinks from day one, then they gradually get upped to fuzzy rats by the time they are 150 grams, and rat pups/weaned rats at about 300-350 grams.
 
Starting on rats seems like a great idea, that way you don't have to do "The Switch" later on. I don't know why I didn't do that :(

Unfortunately I didn't do that, but I have switched before pretty easily. Right now my two ball pythons born in July are eating 1 mouse every 5 days.

The female which is larger is probably going graduate to rats within a week or two.
 
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