Our Pastel het albino ate 1 day after showing up, but he was striking at anything that moved! Our bumblebee ate on day two after having her, but it was the regular feeding day the breeder was feeding her on. Second feeding which was 4 days later to the bumblebee and she ate F/T for the first time with no problems, a little hesitent and slow, but it went down. We are planning on putting the Pastel on a 5 day cycle and the bumblebee on a 5 day schedule to help them grow! Once we get our albino female we will put her on a 5 day schedule as well. Our normal male is on a 5 day schedule with F/T. We are looking for a female normal of breeding size and a board member here is trying to hook us up. If we get it we will probably put her on a 5 day schedule as well since she will have no eat times during breeding and loose some that will have to be regained. All of this could be dumb luck with feeding as I don't think 3 ball pythons readily eating when getting here is enough to state a case compared to the more experienced people here on the web, but it has been our experience so far.