No offense, but there a couple of points in your post that I don't agree with and I'd like to offer some input that might be helpful ...

Quote Originally Posted by Davu
IMO go for the size closest to his girth!
In my experience working with ball pythons, smaller prey items make them more consistent feeders. They have incredibly slow metabolisms (even compared to other snakes) and with balls, less food is more.

Quote Originally Posted by Davu
He is a snake no real need to try and baby him or think you have to work the size of prey up.
Actually, ball pythons can be very shy and timid ... for a slightly stressed ball python, prey size can make a huge difference ... too big and they get scared, too small and they won't "see it". Sometimes, it takes trial and error to find the correct prey size for a particular snake.

Quote Originally Posted by Davu
There built to capture, eat and reproduce much like we are, lol, and i would be a lil cranky if someone only gave me a half of a whopper after i missed breakfast!!
Actually, being ectothermic, they aren't built anything like us at all. Mammals need a constant caloric intake because we use those calories to generate our own body heat ... and as everyone knows, it takes a lot of fuel to create heat ... far more than anything else we use calories for. Ball pythons on the other hand are cold blooded (ectothermic) and heat their bodies using their environment. The only thing they need calories for is physiological function ... and since they are for the most part a very sedentary species, the number of calories they burn in a year is only a small fraction of what mammals burn in a week. A ball pythons hunger doesn't even come close to a mammals.

Quote Originally Posted by Davu
Im a big beleiver in one right sized meal is better then smaller multiple ones
Based on what exactly? .... I've seen the exact opposite with my colony of ball pythons over the last 25 years.

Quote Originally Posted by Davu
Just wanted to let you know that because it directs much of my advice on feeding!
Not that I'd ever want to discourage anyone from sharing their practical experience with others on this forum, but it seems that you haven't even owned a ball python long enough to see it's first shed and you're giving feeding advice? How many feedings have you done that you’re comfortable giving advice?

Not trying to pick on you at all … just pitching my $.02 into the thread.

-adam