how often should baby pythons be fed mice what else do they eat??

Answer 1

If it is a baby python a pinkie or fuzzie once a week will do, sometime s though in the winter he/she maybe more lethargic and not eat every week. If it is more of a sub-adult a small to medium mouse once a week will do, if it is larger like an adult about four feet go with two to three large mice or two medium rats. typically look at the head a snake can eat anything twice the size of the widest part of their head. I've heard of people feed gerbils and hamsters to their snakes, but a apparently they grow accustomed to the taste and may refuse eating mice again, we all know mice are alot cheaper. Do you feed live, stunned, or dead, I prefer dead less likely the snake will get injured, if you feed like always keep food in the tank for the mouse, my friend lost her snake because of a live mouse, so i only feed dead

Answer 2

Depends on the food item size and how fast it digest it. Some snakes can eat every 4 or 5 days but every week is fine. Some larger pythons can survive for almost a year after a large meal - I wouldn't try that for a baby!

Mice are the most common items fed to baby pythons till they get larger when they might take rats or even rabbits if the snake is large enough. Most snakes will take either live or dead mice.

Answer 3

Stick with the mice. Prekilled is better, because once your snake is big enough to take rats, live rats can do serious damage to a snake by biting it. Your snake will be fine feeding it once a week, but I feed mine the day they poop out the last mouse.

Answer 4

You need to be certain that the mice you are using aren't treated with pesticides for fleas, or wash them before serving. I'm not kidding. I killed a boa that way. Never got another snake. I felt terrible about it.

Answer 5

once a week and thats all they eat till they get big enough for rats. also remember not to feed it mice bigger than the fatest part of its body.

Answer 6

Once a week. When bulge disappears, give 'em another rodent. Rodents. Plenty of water. Tiny reptiles, like frogs, too...must be alive, they eat only what they kill. A mouse is fine.

Answer 7

they eat once a week, they only eat mice.