BallPythonDiet. Theirfeedingneeds vary depending on their size, and you don’t needtofeedthem every day. What ballpythonseat. In general, the youngest, smallest ones eat small frozenfeedermice or rats.
Now,whenchoosing the right type, the right size of mice or rats for your snakes it’s important to consider the size of the snake. As a young Children’sPythonor Spotted or Stimson’sPythonthey’ll typicallyfeedon pinky mice.
Pre-killedrodents will usually be killed by the pet store you buy from. Many keepers prefer not to kill their own rodents, so they choose to have the pet store do it for them. The downside is that you can only ever buy one rodent at a time and mustfeedyour prey the same day you buy it.
Furthermore, visual representations like the one above help us fully grasp the concept of When To Feed A Pre-Killed Python.
Ballpythonstypically reach 4 feet (1.2 m) in length; occasionally there are specimens that reach 5 feet (1.5 m).Whenproperlyfed, their bodies become nicely rounded.Older ballpythonsmay befedlargerpre-killedmice or pinkie rats.
Killedgenerically means something from the outside terminated the process, but probably not in this case hitting Ctrl-C since that would causePythonto exit on a KeyboardInterrupt exception. Also, inPythonyou would get MemoryError exception if that was the problem.
UsedtofeedF/TwhenI had less than 10 snakes now with 40+ Ifeedlive.I've neverfedpre-killedor f/t, only live to my ballpythons.
Enthusiastic Eaters. Captive womapythonshave a reputation as being fabulousfeederson proportionately sized rodents. These snakes rarely refuse food, so don’t overfeed them as they can become obese easily.
