Adam's covered everything beautifully as usual. We have a male bp from Adam that's just about 7.5 months old now, weighs in empty at a nice 330 grams as of last week and is a stupendous eater. He eats live (as do all our snakes) and generally takes either 1 or sometimes 2 fuzzy/pup sized rats each Thursday night. No refusals and no obvious body lump.

We've followed Adam's guidance in this and feed even our largest female ball pythons nothing bigger than a small or very small medium rat. They might take more than one per feeding night but they don't fast or refuse and aren't distended after eating. Other than our WC rescue, Saoirse, we've not had any fasting to speak of (the occasional refusal one week or two but then back to the program).

Glad you decided to try ball pythons. Their reputations for difficulty in feeding and shedding seem undeserved. Mike and I certainly aren't long time snake keepers and we just find them a very lovely easy snake to keep once you get their enclosures set right.


~~Jo~~