How to encourage your ball python to eat. There are a few things that you can try if your ball python won’t eat: Make sure you’re feeding the snake the same food as it was eating before it ...

To learn more about the effects that their feeding style has on their bodies, Leinwand and the team compared the hearts of ball pythons (Python regius). One group of pythons had fasted for 28 days.

Because baby ball pythons eat infrequently, this also means they defecate to a lesser extent as well, making clean-up time for their enclosure just as infrequent and easy to do.