The story behind the thought. (Keep in mind this is a double headed question)

I am in the middle of purchasing a couple new females, a black pastel and het pied. They are very small, 50 and 56 grams respectively. An alarm went off in my head but I don't know why. If there is anything wrong with getting ball pythons that small, please let me know. They have been eating live mice of the approriate size.

With the prospect of getting these two ladies I thought about ordering some frozen rats and mice from RodentPro. It's getting cost effective with six possible snakes.

These two are very small and I would do whatever they need but do babies take frozen mice or rats(pinkies)? I'm not thrilled with trying to convert them to F/T and rats at the same time especially at their weight. Does anyone feed newly hatched ball pythons frozen rodents?


On a side note I think I've learned to tell the difference between a black pastel and cinnamon. The black pastel has yellow on the dorsal spots and eyebrows/mustaches around the alien heads.

Some pictures of the potential kids:


Black Pastel:






Het Pied: