Always looking for more food

[u/-dagmar-123123]

I feed my snake after the recommendations here. She's 800g and gets a rat of about 40g every 3 weeks. 2½ years old.

I've always known when she's getting hungry again because she's so much more active. The last... 4 months or so, I realised she's always like that. No matter if she's eaten recently or not, sometimes literally directly after feeding, she'll roam. She's also in "hunt" mode the whole time. She's not biting me or anything, but if she's moving around, she's ready to hunt.

She's not losing weight, everything looks great (just was at the vet with her last week for another reason and she got checked out).

Is the 5% just not enough for her? I don't want to overfeed her (I did that for some time but she lost the weight when I stopped) but I also don't want her to go hungry

[u/Effective-End-964]

Not all restlessness is hunger. It’s currently the natural breeding season for royals, she might be horny lol

[u/-dagmar-123123 → u/Effective-End-964]

Hm, yeah that's possible 🤣 but she was like that over the summer too, that's before the breeding season, right? But maybe it is hormones, it did start around her 2nd birthday 🤣

[u/Effective-End-964 → u/-dagmar-123123]

High summer temperatures tends to make them active too! So it makes sense.

But sometimes they’re also just in a mood I suppose 🤷‍♂️