Question:I now ball pythons eat rats mouses and gerbil but they are supposed to eat reptiles and anphibians and does that mean all reptiles or just sertain ones like can thay eat turtles or other reptiles.
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Ball pythons are rarely cannibalistic (eat eachother).. A ball pythons diet should consist of, like you said, mice rats and gerbils.. It should stay on one prey item.. (If you're feeding mice, stick to mice..If your feeding rats, stick to rats.
Although some ball pythons can be housed together with no problems, some end up eating eachother..
Wild snakes often eat a very wide variety of things to avoid starvation.
A captive bred ball python will do well on a diet of frozen-thawed mice.
Many people feel that ball pythons are difficult feeders. I have been keeping them nearly 20 years and have NEVER had a ball python refuse food for any significant length of time.
You simply need to research them and learn how to keep them correctly.
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