I weighed Zeke yesterday and he was only 80g
Dunno how big they normally get but the store owner told me he is over a year and a half old. It is really weird because the store owner said he is a very picky eater and would go months without eating but he's been eating weekly without hesitation for me. Store owner also said he only eats large pinkie rats with no hair. I fed him 1 month old ASF rats with hair and all that (weanling) which is a bigger size than the pinkie - it is just slightly bigger than Zeke's widest girth and he has no problem eating it as long as it is pre-killed. I fed him live weanling once and it took him a long time to catch his food. So we pre-killed the next one and he crawled up to it and swallowed in under a minute.

But, he is a real hisser. Really nervous sort. He would puff out his body, I guess to make himself look bigger, I don't know. He even struck a few times but just an "air" strike - pulled back before his nose hit my husband's arm. Really weird.

He is so different from our ball pythons that it is so very interesting to watch him. He is active during the day and stays in his hide when the light goes off which is completely opposite from our ball pythons. I've kept his tank next to me when I work to get him used to me through the glass. I don't know if that's a good idea but I'm not quite sure what the best way to get him used to us... We left him alone except for feeding since we got him until yesterday when my husband took him out of the tank and put him on the coffee table with his hide. He immediately went to his hide and stayed there the whole time. Tonight, we'll probably start handling him since he has been eating fine... are we doing okay?