Hi all,
So I'm currently fostering and rehabbing a poorly cared for mojave ball python (long story, but she needs to be properly cared for so we took her in). She is about 2.25-2.5 years old and currently weighs 500 grams. For reference, I got my male super pastel is about 3-4 months older (he's around 3 years old now) and weighs 1500 grams, so I figured that this sort of discrepancy was too much to ignore. I don't think she was given the proper amount of food OR water and husbandry was also not proper.

We got her set up in a 20g tank with all the temps and humidity correct. She has absolutely NO issues eating (you can barely get your hand in the tank before she's snapping to "kill" the FT mice I put in there. Couple of questions for the community here.
1) Will feeding her more often help her regain some of her lost growth (i.e. was thinking 2-3 mice every 4 days)? She would eat almost every day if you offered it to her but is this too much/not enough?
2) Will she ever get to the proper size she should be?
3) Sort of random question, but her tongue is a very dark purple color, vs all my other BPs which are bright pink, is this odd?

And then on a completely separate note, my male (as listed above) is a very finicky eater, and now that he's more mature, he doesn't eat consistently. He will eat, and then not eat for 3-4 weeks (he is offered!). Then most recently he went on a hunger strike for 4 weeks, then went into shed, so didn't eat even longer. He's now been about a month and a half between feedings. Is this normal for a male? He still looks a little chubby (He has a tiny little head a big fat body) but I am wondering if I should be concerned that he sort of...self regulates his eating. thanks all for the help