Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
Tim wrote an excellent how to http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...g-Instructions

Before you attempt this what do you have this baby house in and what substrate do you use?

And I agree rats could be the issue, some hatchling will not take rats at first.
He is in a 4L RUB with 2 hides and aspen substrate. We tried mouse. No dice. Yeah, we've watched all the videos we could get our hands on. Some were better than others. Chewy made it look so easy. There's also a thread here (can't find it now) that has step-by-step instructions on assist feeding. No dice. What really got me so frustrated is we did the "give the rat a tug to get it stuck in his teeth" trick so he wouldn't spit it out. He stayed like that for about 30 minutes and finally managed to get his tail wrapped around the rat and he pulled it out!