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My CB baby ball python has been here for about 3.5 weeks so far. He's had two meals since I got him. Usually I feed him a small mouse on sundays, and the first two times he had eaten readily. Yesterday he was out and very active, so I assumed he was hungry. I put two small mice in (because they were both smaller than usual). He looked at them for a long time, and he kept coming out of hiding to just stare at them for a while, but never took them. The day before I had to bug him while he was hiding and move him because he had pooped in his hidespot, so I'm wondering if messing with him the day before feeding him could have stressed him out enough to not want to eat.

Should I try again tonight or tomorrow night?

You should only offer one prey item at a time. Seeing two may have freaked him out a little.

He was kind of weird about it. He was definately in the feeding mode, but it almost looked like he was trying to choose which one to go for. I left them in overnight (I didn't put them in until around 9 or 10 last night, and I took them out at 6). When I went to take them out, little Steve (the BP) had actually managed to stack them up, one on top of the other.

I'll try just one prey item and see how he takes to that. In the future, if I do need to feed two prey items for some reason, would I have to put the second one in after he's already eaten the first? Just curious.

My ball python has taken two prey items left side by side on a tile. She has also eaten one and left the other at other feedings. I don't know what causes her to eat both at one feeding and only one at the other.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

I left them in overnight (I didn't put them in until around 9 or 10 last night, and I took them out at 6)

DO NOT leave a live mouse over night with a snake for any reason, do not even leave with it unsupervised, if the snake is not hungry and the mouse is, the mouse will EAT the snake and kill it. This has happened to my freinds rat snake, he woke up to find his rat snake with out a head. plz take this into consideration, sorry if u meant to say something else, but that was the sentence u used it in.