You can't imagine how happy I was to see my new BP eat in his new home for the first time last night!

I tried 3 days ago by moving him into a ventilated rubbermade and using BBQ tongs, but he was much more interested in exploring the rubbermade and he thought the Tongs were just the coolest thing ever.

Wound up feeding him about 2-hours after lights-out in the warm side of his enclosure using a set of hemostats. He took about a 3 second look at the pinky and nailed it. He gave it a squeeze, then gulped him down, realigned his jaw and then went back into his hide.

For any total newbies out there another source of information (not nearly as detailed as here!), is the ball_python group on yahoo.