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I currently own four ball pythons, two adults and two juveniles. My question concerns the feeding of different color rats to the adults. As silly as this sounds, my two adults will not eat a rat if it has black or gray coloring in it. I can offer them a rat with black or gray in it and they will completely ignore it. If I remove it and try one that is only white or colored with brown, they will immediately eat. Has anyone else had thuis type of experience?
 
different colored rats

I too have had this experience with my juvenile ball python. When we were feeding him mice (and now rats), he would only eat the mouse/rat IF it was a broken color...for example white and black, or white and brown. This snake absolutely refuses to eat anything that is only ONE color. No plain white, black, or brown for him, no siree bob..So yes there is at least one person who has had somewhat of a same experience..
 
ohhhh, bp's are VERY fussy eaters, my mates eats white and if he trys brown/black it won' eat, and these are lives so these snakes are very smart:D
 
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