Raising a baby ball isn't as complicated as raising other young species of reptiles. The only issues you will need to keep track of when they are young is how and when to increase the size of their prey. For example, when it is young, it will be eating younger mice such as fuzzies, then hoppers. After that, smaller adult mice will be appropriate and eventually they will be eating full grown adults. Plan on increasing the prey size once every several weeks for their first 9 months or so. My bp is about 5 months old and is already eating retired adult breeder mice. She went grew out of hoppers and on to adult mice in less than a month a little while back.

I try my best to serve a mouse that is just about the same size as the largest point of amber's girth, I include the extra size the mouse's fir provides just to be safe. I'm sure she would be able to get something bigger than even that down, but these mice have left her quite satisfied. I'll be moving her on to small rats within the next few months. Although she's having no problem with aduly mice, I really think its too soon to try to feed her rats.