So I Bought my ball at the beginning of the year and have been feeding it 1 small mouse once every 1 week for the most part (once every 2 weeks occasionally) Last month i was beginning to notice that even the biggest small mouse didn't seem to be the size of the thickest part of my snakes body. I took a vacation recently and I hadn't fed my snake for about 3 weeks so last night I went to the pet store and got the smallest small rat they had partly because of my observation from last month and also because i knew my ball was starving by its cage behavior .When I placed the rat in the cage after pre-scenting the room he quickly killed and begin to swallow it, my concern comes in here though it took my ball a considerably long time to swallow the rat and this morning when i woke up he was still in the same spot as last night usually he would be in his hide for the whole day after a feeding and his stomach is unusually larger that the rest of his body its not ridiculously huge but it kind of got me wondering was the prey to large for him. oh and hes about 24 to 28 inches not sure of the weight.