I have a ball phython questions?

Question

My ball python jsut stopped shedding her first shed. She ate threw the shedding one pinky moust every sat. But since shes grown we offered her two and she takes em both we wait till the first is gone and to the second, but day after all the shed stuff was off her she seemed hungry after just 2 pinky's so we fed her another an she grabbed it up and was still looking around for more so we gave her one they were like stuck together so she tec got two more and gubbled them up is this normal should i jsut be buying bigger mice then pinkys or is she jsut really hungry from the shed

Answer 1

If your snake is taking multiple food items it's best to move up in size.  As stated, snakes are opportunistic eaters and will literally eat themselves ill in some instances.  Many of my pythons would eat daily if I gave it to them.  Overfeeding is unhealthy and creates obesity and excess early growth.  I would try fuzzies at this point.  One food item as large as the largest part of your snake should be sufficient.  Feed once a week until the snake is on adult sized food and then go to every 10-14 days.  Pythons and boas have slower metabolisms and don't need as much food as your average colubrid.

Answer 2

you should really always try and feed your snake food that is just as big as the widest part of its body but in my experience its not a big problem like if it was taking a crawler I would give it two pinkies but this was only once in a while if I ran out of the correct size of food.

Snakes are always looking for food as they do not know when they will be getting their next meal u should stick to only feeding once or twice a week. Feeding a snake like that can cause immediate problems not to mention long term effects like obisety if its continuously feed like tht. I'm sure ur snake will be fine this time but I don't recommend you keep feeding it so many. If it is a large ball pytho however as in it is big enough to eat adult mice than it def will be fine but as I said it should be feed the correct size food.