YES!!! Ball Python ate!

[Herpguy55]

My ball python i purchased in october of 2002 ate the first night I braght him home and stopped eating tell June 15 and he ate a small rat and has been eating ever since!! ONly problem is they half to be live i tried frozen and he wouldn't take it. He went into shed about 3 days after the second rat and will be shedding any time now.

Thanks

Kody

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Herpguy55
1.0 Ball Pythons, 1.0 Mississippi Map Turtles, 3.1 Cats, 2.0 Austrailian shepards, 0.1 Blue Healers, and 1.1 Horses

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	1.1 One Male and One Female

[Stormyva]

Thats great new!

Are you going to try and "convert" it to F/T now that it's eating regularly?
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	Frozen/Thawed A rodent or other prey item that is frozen and then thawed to be fed to a reptile or other animal.

[bigdog02]

congrats on your BP eating [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I have heard they tend to be picky but ours has never shyed away from food, lol

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	Ball Python The Ball Python (Python regius), also known as the Royal Python, is a ground dwelling snake native to the savannahs and rain forests in western Africa, predominatly the countries of Ghana, Togo, and Benin.

[Whatsabateater?]

This doesn't quit apply to this situation but if there is any body out there with a bp that is off feed here is a trick a breeder was telling me about recently i don't know if it works because my bp eats anything and everything. (thank god) but he said that he had purchased 6 bp het for albino and paid a Grand each for them. and when they would go off feed he would use hampsters and it would almost always get them to start eating again. he said that bp are from Africa and there staple Diet in the wild is you guessed it Hampsters. He said that this was the best way to get them to feed again. Now i've never had to use this but if this helps anybody cool. Now if what he told me is wrong please correct me cause knowledge is power [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

peace
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	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

[Bry]

Well, I've never heard of feeding hamsters to a ball python. I've heard of feeding gerbils, because of their similarity to jerboas which are their natural diet, but not hamsters. I suppose it can't hurt to try them either. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Bry
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[Whatsabateater?]

that was it gerbils my bad. sorry your right bry.
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