My juvenile male ball python, approx. 6 months old (haven’t weighed him) is outgrowing all but the largest breeder mice. I’m in the process of switching to rat pups. He will take them occasionally, but seems to skip a week in between feedings. If he rejects the rat, I hold off until the next week to offer another. Then during the second week, he will take it. The rat pup does not appear to be larger than the breeder size mice I was feeding him either. He did have a much stronger feeding response on mice.

Should I just hold him to a bi-weekly schedule? Or what adjustments do you suggest to help him be more consistent?