82-84 on the cool side, 92-94 on the hot 24 hours a day. There is no need for a night time drop if you own a single animal.

Pinky mice are wayyy too small for a CB ball python. I start my hatchlings on hopper mice or pink rats for their first meal, and the next meal they are getting small mice or fuzzy rats. What was the store you bought the snake from feeding it? Ball pythons sometimes have to be trained to eat frozen rodents because their natural instinct is to eat live.

Lots of posts on the message board about getting your snake to eat frozen thawed. Take a look around and then ask whatever questions you still have.

-adam