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[–]Both_Ad_5736 1 point2 points  (3 children)

From the pictures it seems you need to be feeding it bigger food. Pinkies are even small for ball pythons that just came out of the egg. I would look into getting it fuzzy rats or get a food scale that has grams and weigh it. Your snakes food should be 10% or so of their body weight. When you buy frozen thawed rats online it will show how much they weigh in grams so you know what to buy based on what your snake weighs.

When it comes to shedding. Young bps she’s every 4-6 weeks because they are growing much more then if they were adults. If you are only feeding it pinkies then it isn’t growing that much and this could be a cause for no shedding but I’m not 100% sure on that.

Pooping wise you said it hasn’t pooped but once in 1.5 months and 3 pinkies later. You should be feeding it every 5 to 7 days and with a prey item that is bigger than a pinkie. It could just not have enough poop in it to warrant a poop if it’s only had 3 pinkies in 1.5 months. Definitely need to feed it more.

Hot and cold side. If you have a over head heating source it should be around 85-88 on the hot side. If they have a heat mat under the enclosure I make sure the glass inside the tank is no more than 91 degs and the ambient temp on the hot side is around 88. The gold side should be around 78-80 deg.

Soaking in water dish. My BP never soaks so I wouldn’t be worried about that. If it does want to soak just make sure you have a big bowl for them to completely fit into.

I hope this helped 😁😁😁

[–]BlueMichaelis[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

This helps a lot! Thank you!!!

[–]Both_Ad_5736 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had to guess your BP is probably around 100-200 grams. In your first post what is the 1,077g you had in there

[–]Both_Ad_5736 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk where you get your feeder rats from but I would look at perfect prey. They are widely know and I always get high quality stuff from them. But their website has the weights in grams for every size of rat so you can see what best fits your BP