My ball python is 8 months old. So far we have had no issues with her. For the first 5 months she would eat every 6 days, and we slowly started feeding her more often as she seemed to be looking for food. We are currently feeding her 8g hopper mice every 3 days and im not sure if thats too often for her. She has a very skinny neck it seems and has to stretch a bit to get her current mice down so I am not sure she is ready to go up to the 12g mice. She has never refused a meal and will strike her mice within seconds each time, im just not sure if she is just greedy or actually hungry. We have her out almost every day roaming and she is active outiside her tank unless she is shedding. I have the most recent pictures of her.