Just keep in mind that ball pythons (unlike geckos) tend to be "imprint feeders" meaning that once they start on a particular type of prey, it can be difficult to get them to take anything else .... it wouldn't be a lot of fun to feed your ball python a $10.00 hamster to see if it will eat one and then go on to realize that for the next 25 years, hamsters are the only thing it will eat.

-adam