Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
It is my understanding that ball pythons are not active hunters - they are ambush hunters and come and sit at the entrance of their burrows and wait for prey to come by.

If larger is better, why do so many keepers find when they move their ball pythons to larger enclosures that they get refusals, and then when they move them back into what some might even call cramped conditions, they no longer refuse food?

To me, that clearly signals that they actually PREFER the secure feeling that they get from a smaller enclosure.
The literature (plenty) I read states that BPs do indeed explore their enviroment looking for food. And I know someone who has been to Ghana several times, visiting several hatching farms and talking to locals. He's got to know, and he has written a book about BPs in German where he just says that.

Maybe some keepers have trouble maintaining proper humidity/temps in larger tanks, thus experiencing refusals.