Well, for a comparison, I have a clutch that just hatched May 6th. The hatch weight was roughly 65 grams give or take. My best eater of the 7 is a male who is now 100+ grams at 11 weeks old.. He has eaten nothing but furred rat pups since 2 days after his first shed and every 4 days after.

Pinky mice are much too small for a ball python hatchling unless it's an unusually small hatchling. I would definitely recommend getting your little one on rat hoppers, or something between a furred pup and a hopper size, and on a 5 day schedule.

You can feed it anything that is not much bigger around than the widest part of the snake. Baby balls can take fairly large meals. If there is no visible feed lump after feeding the meal was too small.

Here is my big 11 week old boy taking a pup (while deep in shed too). You can kind of tell how large it was by the size of the neck bulge in relation to the rats feet.




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