Ball Python ate for first time!

[Conner]

Finally! I bought her a medium rat last Tuesday after work. But her eyes were looking slightly cloudy, as were her scales, so I thought she was going into shed, and she wouldn't eat the rat .

I put the rat in a critter cage to wait until she was finished shedding. But I pulled her out to look at her today, and her eyes were bright and clear and her scales looked great, so I went ahead and put her in a styrofoam container with the rat, and mostly closed the lid. 15 minutes later I heard a "SQUEAK" from the box, looked inside, and she had grabbed it (yes, I fed a live rat. The previous owner said she hadn't gotten it to take f/t meals yet. That will be my first priority, now that she's gone ahead and eaten a meal for me).

Honestly, I thought the rat might be a little too big or her, but she handled it with no problem. Its amazing how much they can stretch out their mouths/throats!

I waited about 15 minutes after she finished to put her back in her cage so she could hide in her fake rock.

I'm so happy!

 

[TTTT]

Congrats

 

[HPIZZLE]

congratz bro!!
aint seen ya much in this forum since you lost that one softy.

 

[Conner]

Yah, once I got rid of my false map (still regret doing that!), I didn't have too much reason to pop in here, other than to scold LepPlat for going so slow on his caiman build.

Now I finally have a ball python. I'm already looking for some native turts for the pond, and a monitor or another snake as well .

 

[Conner]

congratz bro!!
aint seen ya much in this forum since you lost that one softy.

And I can't believe you remember that! It was almost a year ago...

 

[Conner]

Some after-meal pictures. And a couple with a 12" ruler for size reference. She so fat!

 

[Conner]

Well, I'm thinking that she shed the night before I fed her, because when she crawled into her hide yesterday, she kind of pushed out some shed skin through the opening. I haven't pulled it out to check it because I don't want to bug her while she's digesting. I'll probably pull it out tomorrow just to see how full it is.

No wonder she looked so shiny and clear eyed when I fed her yesterday!

 

[chloe]

congrats.
me n my mate were talking about this last night. how when they feed for the first time we were almost in tears lol just so happy they had eaten.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Awesome!!!

 

[Conner]

congrats.
me n my mate were talking about this last night. how when they feed for the first time we were almost in tears lol just so happy they had eaten.

It seems silly to me to have gotten so excited about it, but at the same time I've never kept a snake before, so it was a real milestone for me. Especially with them being such infrequent eaters. Its just so different from my fishkeeping that I'm still adjusting to it.