Baby albino not a strong eater

[karmak]

Hey guys. I recently got the male and female albinos. And the female may I say is hounding down the ft rats! But my little boy is a little less food crazy. Even with little live fuzzies, he is still ehhhh about it. Is it cause he just doesn't like eating as often? Mind you he is the one with the scrape on his head from and old escape attempt.
Temps and humidity is all good. Tub system.
He's eaten three live mice hoppers with me, one fuzzie rat live,
And a ft large rat fuzzie.
He just skips some meals.
Maybe he's just not hungry?

[Neal]

A lot of things can be contributed to them skipping meals.

Often times young ball pythons can have bad feeding responses, and what I mean by this is they're not very good eaters. For instance my bee normally never refuses a meal, while he did this past week it's not a big deal. I have a black pastel who's under 100g and will sometimes eat off tongs, but this past time because he's in shed I had to leave the rat fuzzy in there with him. His feeding response is nowhere as near good as my spider. The spider that I have is over 100g, probably around 110-120g and he will pound anything and it doesn't matter if he's in shed or not. If one of my other snakes refuse a meal, I'll normally give it to him and this past week he ate two rat pups.

Some just have better feeding responses then others and there isn't any particular reason for it. I've noticed that spiders or anything with the spider gene always to me seems to have better feeding response. Now while this is purely speculation, it's just what I've observed. If he's eating and not losing any weight then just keep up what you're doing and hopefully his feeding response will pick up soon.