No matter what info you find on any website ball pythons are solitary animals EXCEPT during breeding season and that coupling only lasts till the male is done (no smonking cigs or cuddling afterwords) he just goes his own way. I don't keep any balls together unless like bolito said they are being bred or a clutch of babies till they shed. As for your swelling I bet its a piece of stuck bedding in his mouth from grabbibg such small prey, not likely that a mouse bit an adult ball python, they usually cover the whole mouse and get some bedding in there too. If your feeding on loose bedding I would stop and put cage carpet in the "feeding" tank.

Good luck with your little guy!
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1.0 Sunrise (sshhh)
1.0 orange ghost mojave
1.0 Het pied
1.0 Hypo
1.0 Spider Het Hypo
0.1 orange ghost mojave
0.1 mojave (best looking one ever! thanks Jeff Luman)
0.1 Pastel Het ghost
0.1 Hypo
0.1 mojave
0.4 Het nerd Orange Hypo
0.2 poss Het nerd Orange Hypo
0.1 poss Het albino
0.1 het pied
0.1 Bell Jungle
0.6 normal breeders
0.1 black pastel (unproven)
0.1 Tiger ball (unproven)
0.1 genetic reduced pattern
0.1 black back
0.1 mojave (best looking one ever! thanks Jeff Luman)
0.1 Pastel Het ghost
1.0 posslble salmon boa
0.1 BCI 8.5 ft
1.0 (creamcicle?) (okatee?) digging in to his genetics . . .
1.0 snow corn
1.0 anery motley
0.1 anery motley
0.1 ghost motley corn
0.1 lavendar het hypo
0.1 miami het hypo
0.1 coral snow
0.1 miami
0.1 sunglow
0.1 candy cane
0.1 love line okatee
0.1 blue tail monitor
2.2 felines aka boa food ;o
And I am not gonna count all those rats . . .

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