Okay, first - there's no age where a ball python eats a prey item as small as a fuzzy. After two feedings of hoppers my hatchlings were big enough to eat full grown mice, which is what your snake should be eating.

Second - the tail is naturally skinny after the vent. I doubt you really have much to worry about, although if you'd like to disprove me and post a picture, that'd be a much better example.

Don't worry about him refusing food. Like Melinda said, it could be going into shed, or the temps might not be exactly to its liking, might not be humid enough, or the sun, moon, and stars might not be aligned in the exact perfect positions for optimal ball python digestion. Who knows. They do this kind of thing with frustrating regularity.

As far as pooping - have you ever worried about how long it takes you to digest and then poop? Snakes just digest slower. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, my large female only poops maybe once a month or so. Great big smelly turds that can be larger than a chihuahua.

Don't soak it unless it does turn out to be going into shed and you don't think your humidity is high enough. Leave it alone until it starts eating again.



Good luck!



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318 pairs of ribs.

In stating this I place reliance

On a seance with one who died for science

This figure is sworn to and attested,

He counted them while being digested."

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