Ball have not passed his food yet?

I fed my male ball 5 days ago one mice and 10 days ago another mice. The first mice from 10 days ago still haven't been pooped out yet. Is this something to be concern about? Is there anything I can do to help it. I am using reptile bark from Zoomed, so I don't think he is impacted. He had pooped before. Everything about the husbandry is right. Hot side is 85 to 90+, mostly on the 90 side. It's humid enought, around 50 to 65%.

This is completely normal.

You have a hot side and cool side of your tank right? 88-92 on the hot side and 78-82 on the cool side?

He's fine they don't poop as often as we think.
The only issue is how big is he? If he's getting too small of meals he may be using up all of those meals and not having much to poop. Proper prey size should be roughly 10-15% of the snakes weight.

Is not really a problem or issue. Just something to keep in mind.


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There is NO set schedule and before someone recommend soaking I advise against it unless it's ABSOLUTELY necessary.

Defecation varies from one animal to another there are various factors that come into play as well such as: age of the animal, feeding size and frequency etc

Younger individuals utilize most of the prey for their growth therefore there might not be much waste etc

Ultimately he will go when ready.

Now if the animal was impacted this would be different and soaking would be recommended, but unless your snake as a bulge near the vent area that does not seem to go away I would not worry about it.

Deborah, actually I did notice a bulge near the vent. However it is not a big one, it doesn't feel hard at all.

The bulge does go away when I touch it lightly. It isn't a big bulge, it just makes the tail section pass the vent seem thinner than usual. I am not even sure if it's an impact bulge. i'll try to get a picture up, (not sure how to post pictures)

He'll probably defecate soon. While our guy was eating small weekly feeding he'd only defecate once every 3 months before he shed. This last time was about 3 weeks.