Quote Originally Posted by Wh00h0069 View Post
Congrats on the rat babies and the your snake eating. I feed my hatchling ball pythons live rat pinks. I suggest feeding her live rat pinks every five days, until she is big enough to take a rat the next size up. The prey item should be no thicker than the thickest part of the snakes body. I feed all of my ball pythons live. I used to try to feed f/t, but stopped becasue most of my balls wouldn't eat. I didn't see any reason to starve them when they would readily take live. There is nothing wrong with keeping her on live, but if you would like to switch her to f/t, I would let her get used to eating live for a while before you try to switch her. Balls can be very picky eaters. Anyway, hope this helps.

Thanks for the info. I would love to have live feeders on hand at all times, but I don't want that many rats! I'm going to get her eating as much as I can now, freeze some and I should have another litter of rats in 2 weeks.