figuring out my baby

[gaplastina]

Are you sure the food is the correct size? It should be around as big as the snake is wide at his widest point. If you have a scale, you can weigh him and the food with a general target of 10% to 15%.

If he is around 115g though, you can feed him every 3 or 4 days. They will eat a lot at that size since they're trying to outgrow the "I'm breakfast for everyone" stage of life as fast as they can.

The hoppers are WAY too small. The rat fuzzies are the next size up (I get my rodents from rodentpro.com). They may still be a tad small, but since he's only eaten hoppers before now, I didn't want to push it too much. I do have the next size up as well. The rat pups are probably the size he should be at. But again, after only eating mice hoppers, I didn't want to bump him up 2 sizes.

I'm going to try an help the best I can but my answers are not absolute so hopefully more people will chime in to balance things out. I have a snake that started of like yours, mine didn't eat the first month that I had him and once he did start eating I had to feed him mice hoppers because he wouldn't take rats yet. He was extremely defensive and would strike at me all the time and actually bit me a couple times. I would say to hold off on handling for a while and since he's showing signs of wanting to eat get him on feeding schedule. Mine would eat everyday if I offered but he doesn't need to be fed everyday or every other day. Every 4-5 days for a hatchling ball python is good. And once he gets on a good schedule and settles in more he will be a lot easier to handle because he will know when food is coming and when it's time to be handled especially now that he's eating rats a rat pup will be good for him every 4-5 days. Hope this is helpful and more people chime in. If anything in here is wrong someone please correct me lol. Oh almost forgot! What is your set up like? Is he in a tank or rack system? How are you measuring temps and humidity? Just wondering so we can help with the snakes shedding issues. Bad sheds means the humidity is too low. So if you tell us what your set up is like we can try and help you even more

Before he started eating like this, he was handling fine. It's just been the past week - kindof like he's realizing he likes food and wants more... LOL... So maybe I should shoot for every 4 days?
My set up is a tank - I know I'm struggling to get the correct humidity. He was going into shed when I bought him, but the second bad shed was totally on me. I believe my issue is the screen cover and heat lamps. I don't think my UTH is working well, so I had to kick up the lamps to get the heat correct, which I know is drying out my humidity. My temps are correct, but the humidity is in the crapper. I've actually just got a new UTH, thermostat, and some other goodies to work on the humidity issues I just haven't gotten to fix the tank yet. Was going to try and work on it yesterday when he decided he wanted to eat again.