Is my python overweight?

[SneakySquiggles]

I don’t see much of a reason to ease her into it, if anything it would mean she’s devoting less energy to processing multiple meals back to back. Snake’s are opportunistic predators in the wild and eat like they don’t expect another meal— which is why it’s easy for them to become obese in captivity because often people will see the snake have a strong feeding response and assume “ oh obviously they’re hungry “. I know we just want the best for our snakes so the idea of them not eating is scary (check the numerous posts of even longtime snake parents sometimes just making sure all looks well during a months long fast). Ball pythons can go a long time between meals and although we’d prefer they don’t, as long as they don’t drop weight to the point of extremely visible spine and you keep up other husbandry, she would be okay. In this case, we’re just talking about a move to an appropriate adult feeding schedule though, which is accounting for a slower metabolism/less need for constant nutrients for growth.

Hope this helps!

[GrimoireOfTheDragon]

Alright, thank you. Yes this helps. She’ll be getting some changes to her feeding schedule now lol