What does your ball weigh?
and your ball will roam the cage during the night as balls are nocturnal, and i don't think they get hungry they are instinctive creatures so if they smell food they will go into hunt mode constantly flickering their tongue, but i am sure if they also do this too much it can be because there stressed but im no expert id wait for some more people to weigh in
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