Hey Forum

I have a question about f/t rats. For about a month and a week now, my ball python hasn't ate. It hasn't lost any weight either, of which I'm glad. It recently had a large meal, and was uninterested in feeding for a couple weeks.

Today, it striked and grabbed the head (which was bloody) but then instantly let go. The last couple times I tried feeding it, the rats were a little more bloody than usual. The rats I get on a normal basis have just a bloody nose, but these had bloody faces, and there's still one in the package whose body is a bloody mess (I don't plan on using that one). My question is: Should the rats be blood free?