Well, just to follow up on this I went and got medium frozen mice today since they didn't have rats and went to feed the "bigger" ball python - it immediately ate, so good news I guess... Since the other "smaller" one has been sitting in it's tank getting acclimated I thought I would try and handle it... well, bad idea... it immediately struck and bit me. I have had experience with these snakes before and never have I been bitten. I was scared to put the other one back in the tank. They both are really "fast" or "jumpy" compared to ball pythons I've seen before?
Maybe it's a temperament thing?
Yikes...
It got me a little scared to mess with them now...