Quote Originally Posted by J.P. View Post
Thanks for your replies. current weight is 396 grams. It topped at 450 grams before unloading a big load of poop that it held for the first 3 months i had it. According to the breeder it was hatched in june 2013. I do not weight my rats, but the general size i feed it is the same as an adult mouse, given weekly.

By the way, i forgot to mention that the top view is fat and appears to be what is called a pinhead, but it's only like that because the wide part of the body flattens when relaxed. The body is soft, like there is empty space between the skin and ribs, feels totally diffetent from other balls that are packed solid with good muscle. It's also not as active as my other balls, it stays on one place if i set it down, i rarely see it cruising in the cage and it somewhat has a habit of half assing it's strike and coils prey with it's neck only. The movement also seems weird because i only see it doing the belly crawl and never the smooth serpentine.motion of an active ball python. Nevet goes into a ball too.
now it sounds difficult and complicated and i hope the real experts chime in i made too many assumptions (sorry for that), and now you say its behavior also shows oddities, and all i can say is that its weird. we need some experts here.