Well our friend had just gotten these snakes out of a bad situation, when someone called her landlord and said "OMG that woman has multiple large snakes!"
Enter me and my new hobby, ball pythons. The females are in really great shape despite the ordeal, none of the snakes had eaten in 8 months. The male however is a dinky 90 grams and was refusing food, I think he's about 3 yrs old from what I've been told. So we force fed pinkies to him for two weeks. We didn't want to risk injuring him by force feeding a larger mouse or rat. Either way it must have done the trick and improved his appetite. Last night we assist fed one hopper, then he took down the next three hoppers with scaled vengeance! No help required. Needless to say I'm very proud of him. It only took the two weeks we've had him and the week my friend had him before he was eating on his own.
I think he likes his new tub and hide, I know I like him. (I always cheer for the underdog.)
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