It is referring to mice or rats that you feed to the snake.
Sure, but consider these things.1. It is not good to feed a ball python live because a live mouse or rat can kill or seriously injure a snake.2. Do you really want to change?3. Your python may not eat and become scared.
I had a hungry Ball Python and I dropped a mouse in with it and it wouldn't touch it. The next morning the mouse gave birth and my ball python still wouldn't go near it. Tonight I tried to feed my king snake a mouse and my snake ignored it, even after I trapped the mouse within inches from my snake. So I removed that one and dropped in another and my king snake ate it with no problems. I bet in the morning that mouse it wouldn't eat will be delivering baby's But on You-tube I saw a ball python eat what the feeder says was a pregnant mouse so idk.
Weekly for the Burmese python.
No!
You should feed your baby ball python frozen pinkies, your middle-aged python frozen mice, your aged python, live mice!
feed it a little bit of raw meat and if doesnt like it try fruits
dont feed rats to you python that is crule rather give your python rump steak or beef or chiken make sure it is raw ...that is beter for your snake to eat trust me i am a vet. ^^why is feeding a rat to your snake any more cruel (by the way you spelled that wrong) than feeding it abused chicken and poor cows. Besides those foods were processed for HUMANS. snakes should eat food meant for them. and the size of rodent depends on the size of your snake. Most likely a ball python would be eating mice not rats. My 2 year old male ball python eats adult frozen mice. YOU'RE a vet?
No - their natural diet is small rodents !
Depending on how small of a snake they usually prefer to eat pinkies (baby rats/mice). You can buy them online or at petco but buy them FROZEN put them in water to dethaw an your baby gopher snake will be happy
well ball python can be feed once a week .
A ball python is usually 2-4 feet long with some exceptions that get 5-6 feet. I am sure there as been an occasion or two where a ball python as eaten another ball python but I have not ever heard of it (I am a breeder). King snakes on the other hand will eat any other snakes (even ones bigger then themselves). However except for breeding purposes, Ball Pythons should not be housed in the same cage they are loners and can become stressed and stop eating when housed together. They're possibly the 4th easiest snake to look after, followed by the corn snake, the king snake and the the milk snake.