Quote Originally Posted by Kaaa
My snakes i take them out of the cages and feed them on the floor, away from anyone but myself, because i do not want to stick a live mouse in the cage with them and be the one to find a dead snake in a few hours. But my female she wouldn't eat outside of her tank for about a month, so i was feeding her pinkies, because there eyes are still closed and they don't really have any teeth. But every feeding session i would take her out of the tank and try to get her to eat, and if she didn't take i would put her back in the tank with the pinky. to get her to relate the two things, and she did! And a month later she know eats in the open just like my other snakes.

My Male he will strangle the life out of a mouse till the point were there about to bust. But if i feed him a pinkie he swallows it alive with out even strangling it. The only reason i gave him a pinkie and not a hopper was because, the store did not have anything else so i gave him, so i gave him 3 pinkies, to substatue for the 2 hoppers he eats. And a week later he is still looking for food.
Just a heads up, you realize that hatchling ball pythons over 50 grams should eat hopper to small adult sized mice, right? Pinkies are not much of a meal for them, and they won't grow the way they should on that kind of feeding regiment.