black blood python feeding

just got a new baby black blood python around 15 inches he will only eat rats that are a little to big for him he does eat any of the smaller ones i try how often should he eat since he is eating a larger than normal meal he eats it fine and dosnt regurgitate but dont wana make him get to over weight he will eat one eacj week if i let him but he seems to be getting very fat from this any info on bloods would help all my experince is with burms and carpets and green trees now i just got this baby blood and a baby retic so just wana make sure i keep these snakes as healthy as my others

I've never had blood pythons. But I'm pretty sure if the snake is eating by itself and your not force feeding it more then likely they are not too big for your snake... I'm shocked everytime I see my 200 gram bumble bee eat a weaned to small rat!

And blood pythons are a realativly short and very fat snake.

ok thanks yea when o got him i was told he was eating rat pups which makes since for his size i tryed that he would just look at it and not eat so i got a hopper rat and he did the same and then i tried small rat that seems way to big for him just cause i had some and feed them to some of my other snakes and he grabed it withn a few secs and ate it and the next week i tryed the smaller stuff again and he wouldnt eat so i threw a bigger rat n there and he grabed it and ate agian i was just worried cause the rats are alot bigger around than he is but now he is getting fat and about as big around as a rat lol

Right baby snakes grow really fast. I hope I was alittle help tho

you were it just scares me feeding him such a large meal cause its a live rat this is my first snake that wont eat frozen either i just get scared the rat will hurt him if the right was real small i woudnt worry but he killed it real fast bloods seem the be stong for there size compared to most pythons he grabed it and let go and was eating it with 30 sec it was crazy

the new retic i got is grwing like crazy also he was around 18 inches when i got him and is almost 4 ft now and i have only had him 2 months

You have two of the big four you ready for that?

yea i have an albino burm now that around 12 ft

thats a big boy/girl.

its a boy he is a big baby the and very freindly just looks scary lol he loves to be held and taking out

Wait till that retic is 12 ft long

yea lol i handle him alot and he is very freindly hope to keep him that way with handleing him all the time

That's the only way to do it

yes it is same with my blood i have been told they are very aggresive but i hold him all the time to he seems freindly so far

Bloods and retics most def have a mean streak tho I've seen snakes that have never bit before bite and bite hard

yea im hoping they both turn out to be nice i have some freinds with large retics that are as freindly as my burm

Congrats!! Where are the pictures

i will post some the retic i got is the one in my profile pic

hey how do u post pics on here tryn to post pics of new blood

I need to make a better DIY on how to post pictures, but this thread has a couple ways we do it.

http://www.vaherps.com/t698-we-need#6300

I send mine to photo bucket, then it's a easy copy img code paste in post and it's there.

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thats my new black blood and here is my new retic

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Very nice. Just like my snake room ... Always a drill laying around

yea u always seem to need a good drill

yea the retic is growing like crazy way faster than my burm grew i just had to buy him a new boaphile tank

Good looking snakes

I honestly love the retic coloring and pattern, but they aren't for me. I had a jampea tiger and a normal jampea dwarf when I bought out a collection a while back and I almost didn't let them go, but luckily I knew what laid ahead. Maybe one day when the boy is big I will get another.

There are some drop dead color morphs in retic, but darn they get big.

yea i have always liked retics and burms my first snake was a burm u just gota make sure u have help when cleaning the cage and when u take them out just to be safe never had a big snake strike at me thou they seem to b freindlier the bigger they get as long as u handle them daily when young

My first snake was a burm too. I swear, she would hiss and you could feel it in the ground. Meanest snake I ever owned LOL

But you have to admit that hissing got your blood moving.

lol i hear that alot when i have freinds that have snakes their like ur crazy that retic and burm is evil i had one and got rid of it cause i thought it was gona kill me and im always like wat kinda mean snake did u have lol i have never had that problem maybe cause i get them at a tiny size and handle them daily even till their 20 ft i take all mine out daily and they never hiss and the retic and burm loves to have there heads rubbed

my next big snake is gona b a green anaconda and a yellow i have a breeder that will have babies this spring if anyone is interested

he also will have albino purple retics if anyone is interested im diff getting a baby a purple retic n spring also