I recently got my first ball python, a nice little female bumblebee (after an entire year of research and geeking out watching snakebytes on youtube no less) it's only been a week since I've had her and I'm worried about her not taking food.

The breeder suggested I try and feed her the day I take her home since 'they can be weird like that' but I waited until her feeding day, this being thursday and no dice! She acts as if she's scared of the pinkie, despite seeming interested tongue wise. After looking online at baby ball python feeding i'm wondering is a pinkie too small? I've only seen other people use hopper mice for pythons of this size

I've tried a few ways of thawing the prey item and various ways of heating up her food but still nothing. I may be over worrying at this stage since she's only been in her new enclosure a week today. Just wondering if theres anything I can do to help this? Her hot side is at 90 with the cold side being 76, she has a UTH on a thermostat (set to 82) and a heating lamp on a timer to bring the temps up during the day. I spray the enclosure during the day to keep the humidity up and she has a large water bowl to help with this too.

As far as her behaviour goes she's very inquistive during the night and during the day she'll occassionaly go on a quick look around her enclosure before going back to her hide. From what I can tell she seems quite happy in her enclosure she just refuses to eat


Any tips?