I'm a relatively new ball python owner here, had him now for almost 3 months, and so far things have been great. Got all the temps correct, 2 hides, etc, etc.

My ball python has fed perfectly for every week I've had him.

But I just wanted to ask all of what kind of behaviour your ball python shows when feeding, particularly on frozen/thawed.

Sometimes upon me lowering the food into the cage, he will slither on out of the hide, sniff around, coil back, and strike fast.

But other times he slithers on out of the hide and slither almost right past the food as if he didn't see or sense it. He then has to continue sniffing around and eventually ends up finding it after a short amount of time......

Is that normal? Or is there something I'm doing wrong?

At first I thought his eyes were injured, but he responds normally when handling and everything else, so it can't be that.....

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance