I recently got a young ball python for my birthday. I've had many snakes growing up and two other pythons some years ago just for a couple months but this python I got from the pet store is less than 6 months old and has only ever eaten Frozen pinkies. He is not much smaller than my past pythons who ate live mice but since he has never eaten live before I have been trying to do as much research as possible so that I don't feed him something too big that's going to kill him. I have a very small female Mouse that I want to feed him tonight, any suggestions? Also, if I put the mouse in his cage and he doesn't eat it within a certain amount of time, should I take it out?