Been working on getting some new arrivals to the collection up and eating and like most am running into issues with feeding. I've limited myself to frozen/thawed prey items due to local availability as well as the misses not being pro live feeder options. As most ball's have their own personalities I've come to find that not all wish to have the prey item offered in the same way. My general feeding days are Friday and either Saturday or Sunday at around 11PM. I generally attempt to feed everyone on Friday and save one of the other two days for the ones who held off feeding on the first day. I have a few males that will only strike at food that is presented head first with forceps holding the prey item by the neck. Others strike at food that is held by its tail, and then I have some that I have to pretend to be the rat and have it running around the bin before they perk up to strike. Anyone have any other techniques that work that I should try for picky eaters? Currently I have one sub adult female (in the higher 900 grams) that has a sassy personality that likes to huff and puff and bluff all of her strikes. She slaps the prey items with her face and stands her ground, but never latches.

As for regularity, I've always been one to offer a fair sized prey item once a week and leave it at that. Now I'm past having just a couple ball's as pets and am looking to venture into breeding and want to be sure I keep my adult girls at healthy weights, and/or boost their weights up so they are ready for breeding. Talking to a few breeders I've heard that feeding multiple (3-5 depending on the females size) prey items isn't unusual to get a girl up to weight and/or to keep her at a breeding weight prior to spawning. I've never had a ball that would eat more than one prey item per sitting, but I have had a few who go on the hunt less than 24 hours after taking one meal and will pound another meal as soon as it's offered. My questions are as follows:

1) Is there any drawbacks to feeding multiple meals per week to animals that are not showing signs of obesity?
2) Besides skin showing between scales, what are obvious signs that a snake has too much weight for its size?
3) How often is too often? Offer meals with day gaps in between? Or feed until the snakes interest is met as long as there are no signs of obesity?

Please keep in mind that these animals are no longer 100% pets and I want to make sure they are getting the nutrition they need to keep up with being able to spawn as well as produce all while being healthy.