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 i wonder ???
i used to have a leopard gecko who was truley amazing and i fed all sorts of small insects and varied meals and now am soon to be gretting a Ball Python and was wondering if theres anything unusual or different that you feed yours apart from mice and rats ?
PLease dont start a vendetta against me im new to snakes and was just researching and not being ignorant....
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Re: i wonder ???
Some people feed other rodents such as hamsters and gerbils....but you definately dont want a ball python with a taste for $10.00 hamsters  They will also eat quail or chicks....but that really makes their poop nasty....
...stick with mice or rats 
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Re: i wonder ???
There's a couple members, where mice and rats aren't easily available and offer hamsters and gerbils. Just be wary if you try and offer other type of rodents. You don't want a snake that decides hey that's waaayyyy better...I'll just hold out til I get some more of that. There's no reason that you need to offer a varied diet. They do just fine on the mice or rats.
Christie 
Reptile Geek
Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Dang you must've beat me by seconds!! Seems great minds think alike though. LOL!
Christie
Reptile Geek
Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Re: i wonder ???
 Originally Posted by tigerlily
Seems great minds think alike though. LOL!
Definately
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Re: i wonder ???
yeah but where are these great minds
Alex
{1.0.0 ball pythons- MONTYcurently being fostered}
0.3.0 older sisters
3.0.0 older brother-in-laws
3.0.0 little brothers
0.1.0 cutest lil sister ever
New!!! just added!!!3.0.0. nephew!
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Re: i wonder ???
Just keep in mind that ball pythons (unlike geckos) tend to be "imprint feeders" meaning that once they start on a particular type of prey, it can be difficult to get them to take anything else .... it wouldn't be a lot of fun to feed your ball python a $10.00 hamster to see if it will eat one and then go on to realize that for the next 25 years, hamsters are the only thing it will eat.
-adam
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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty
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Re: i wonder ???
Is the online herp forum world got such a bad reputation that a newcomer is worried about being picked on for asking a question. That's sad!
Hope you got some good answers to your question and feel welcome here. If it's not about sharing knowledge or experience, good natured debate or asking questions (as well as a bit of good fun mixed in of course LOL), then it's not about much at all in my lil ole opinion.
Stick around, ask questions please, it's a pretty cool place to learn and get to know other snake crazy folks! 
~~Jo~~
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Re: i wonder ???
Originally Posted by daniel1983
Definately
You spelled definitely wrong.
1.0 dog - Otis
1.0 ball python - Olaf
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