I bought my first ball python a couple of weeks ago, and he's a real sweetie, but I haven't gotten him to eat yet.

When I first bought him it was 3 days prior to the next scheduled feed at the pet shop. I gave him a few days to settle in, and tried to feed him a thawed pinkie, but he didn't want it. So I gave him a couple more days thinking he hadn't quite settled enough, and then I bought a live one, because when I asked the petshop about it they said they fed their snakes live. I left the pinkie in the cage with him for several hours, and he still didn't eat it.

My friend said the pinkie was probably too small for him so I tried feeding him a thawed fuzzie yesterday, and he wasn't interested. I got a live one today and he smelled it, but was more interested in getting out of the cage than eating.

She said they go off feed for a while, so my question is how long do I wait for him to want to eat? Or how can I entice him to eat something?

Here's a photo I took for my friend to show the size of the pinkie I bought compared to my bp, Rizolli.