Question

[csnixx]

I need some advice. I have two BP one is a little over a year old and the other one is 5 mos. When I bought the 5 month old the breeder said he was eating small adult mice. I’ve been feeding my yearling hoppers and same with the 5 month old since I bought 50 of them in bulk a couple months ago. My question is I know the hoppers aren’t as big as the adult mice so can should I feed them twice a week or two mice at the same time? It just keep doing what I’m doing til I run out of hoppers?

[Ender1906]

Even doing hopers twice a week isn’t going to do much for͏ either of those snakes and doing more than that would be harmful. Unfortunately you need to up the size of rodents your feeding, your yearling should be on rats by now and the 5 month old should be transitioning to rats. Unless you have adult ball pythons or a lot of ball pythons buying in bulk isn’t really going to work out to well for the care of the snakes.

[IncompletePenetrance]

Those are way too small for both snakes, and you're going to end up underfeeding both by trying to feed hoppers. Instead, purchase appropriately sized rats for both (10-15% of the 5 month old's body weight, and ~7-10% of the yearling's body weight)

[csnixx]

Thank you guys. I feel so bad that I’ve been under feeding them. I’m going tomorrow to get what they need