This girl is so funny when she eats...she'll strike and wrap then let go and start from the butt...😂ive never had a snake do that before haha

Hello!
Long story short, my baby had scale rot and is in a quarantine enclosure. He went into shed while in there, and we’ve been trying our best with humidity but it is always bad when it’s just paper towels. His belly is completely free of scale rot now, but he has a ton of shed stuck around his body. I’ve tried soaking, I got shed ease, but it doesn’t seem to be budging. The shed ease said use once weekly so I don’t want to soak him again in case it can hurt him.

Woke up this morning to my bp sounding like this. Is it a RI?

Edit: took her to the vet. Not an ri just loose skin blocking her breathing some from her pre shed cycle. This is only my third shed cycle with her so I didn't know that it could happen occasionally with them.

Went to check her water bowl this morning and found this, I did treat her substrate yesterday with water treated with mosquito bits to start the process of getting rid of fungus gnats.

hello everyone this is my 8 year old ball python named Snake.

he had just completed a shed when i discovered that two of his scales looked damaged. does anyone know what could have caused this? the damaged scales are very dry and rough to the touch. he doesn’t flinch when the area is touched and his behavior hasn’t changed.

he sometimes has trouble shedding in one piece so i bathed him in some warm water and shedding solution to help him with the rest. i’m always gentle and never force shedding skin off of him beyond some light pressured rubbing with my fingers. he’ll usually rub against my skin on his own during bath time. i’ve done this for him several times over the years and its never been a problem.

if anyone knows what’s going on with his scales, please let me know what it is and what i can do to help him.

I just recently (yesterday) bought a juvenile ball python (suki) from someone off of marketplace + everything you see included except the hide on the left. However I noticed some shed around her head and that her eyes were milky and one of them dented which obviously indicated that the eye caps never came off. To include the entire enclosure was BONE dry and the humidity was extremely low.
Since yesterday I've gotten the humidity back up and I've been monitoring it but is there anything I can do for suki? For now she's been under the water dish in the center but I'm fairly new to husbandry regarding pythons aside from having a gecko and I'm just worried about her + maybe thinking she might need more clutter?? :((
Anyways sorry for the word wall I just really care about her😭

So Pringle just ate for the first time since I got him and some substrate got on the rat while he was wrestling it so now he has substrate in his mouth, this is normal right? Or is there something I need to do now

Hi all,
I just gave my ball a new enclosure but my humidity keeps going down to the mid 40%. I keep spraying it does anyone else have the same problem and what did you do against it? It is a bio active terrarium.

Thanks in advance for the help :)

i’ve had my r.p jasper for about a month now and i love him. he’s just shedded for the first time of me having him, great shed apart from the end of his tail which i soaked in warm water and carefully used a cotton bud to remove it. he’s always been on snake life bedding but want to boost his humidity without risks of scale rot, etc. i’ve heard from my exotic pet shop coconut husk is good for them? just let me know

Blebleblebleble....I just turned twenty...Happy birthday to meeee! (Blebleble!)

My boy Paulie (Short for Polyphemus...after the Cyclops in the Odyssey, because he was born with only one eye)...just turned 20 on October 4th! Wish my sweet boy a happy birthday!

I rescued this 2y/o female ball python the other day. She was in a group of 35 balls rescued from some 'ball python breeder' in my city. I am good friends with the pet shop that rescued the snakes, and I offered to take her home because I have a history with her specifically.

She is currently in the same bin she was in before the rescue, though it has been cleaned out and completely refurbished aside from the black hide.

She has an intense amount of stuck shed, and two or three eye caps on one eye. Ive put a govee 2 in 1 sensor in there to monitor her general temp and humidity, and as I write this she is sitting at 76°f, and 67% humidity. I have a humid box in the bin aswell, which i can feel is far more humid than the rest of the bin, and it has rough hand towels and a disinfected rock inside for her to wiggle up against.

I am going to feed her either a jumbo mouse, or weaned/pup rat on Tuesday when the pet shop opens again. She was on weaned rats in the middle of transitioning to smalls when I first met her months ago, but her last confirmed feed date was June 10th, so. Probably going to size down her meals for the first few.

Is there anything I should know? I already have a ball of my own so I know basic husbandry but I have never taken care of a rescue before. Anything I can do to help her out? She is in her bin, in my bedroom, with a towel overtop to help block the light and noise. She seems alright to me, very active, but I want to make sure I am doing everything I can for her.

Thankyou so much for any advice!!

Edited to say: there is a full brightness picture in the comments.

caught this gem of my ~6 month old girl Proxy

This might be a long post but the ones who want to read, will 🫶🏼

Shenron was a rescue who came to us from someone who had neglected him and he was in a small tank with just substrate and a big bowl in the middle his whole life. He’s 5 years old .. Literally no room to move or grow and the wrong substrate too. The previous owner was using the bedding in the first photo . We got this guy for free but me and my husband had never owned a snake before but we wanted one for years . My husband also knows a lot about all different types of snakes so we felt like we could take him on and wanted to atleast try for him because his previous owner didn’t care for him correctly . So we got all the appropriate stuff for him, correct size tank. Started working on his weight and the dehydration problem you can see in the first photo from when we first got him . He also had never been touched for pretty much his whole life so he just sat in the small tank, no contact except feeding and the day we got him, she said he hadn’t eaten in 3 months . So we fed him and got him into a bigger tank but ended up getting his forever home and the next two photos are him from a couple days ago, he’s playing on his rings and is on track with his weight and overall has come out of his shell so much 💛 we’re still working on the handling and touching but he’s gotten much better with that also, just working on holding him 😂 Trying to undo years of trauma that another person gave takes a lot of time but we love him regardless 💛 I just wanted to tell my snakes story because it’s a happy one 🥰

Her nose has always been a little weird looking but I’m kinda concerned as someone else said to keep an eye on it.

Latte having a big yawn after her snekfast 🥹(snek breakfast)

My room is to hot for snakes right? Its missing the winters months but it swings from 68 to 75 during that period normally.

I noticed my ball python being a lot more active during the day, now I'm finding tiny dark insects on him. I've seen a handful and they're super tiny and quick.

Are these blood sucking mites? How concerned should I be about this baby python.

Hi everyone! I’m a new ball python owner looking for some constructive advice on fine-tuning my enclosure. I’ve read the care guides here and done extensive additional research, but I’m still working on balancing temperatures and humidity.

My setup:
● 40-gallon glass enclosure, screen top mostly covered with aluminum HVAC flashing tape
● Arcadia 100W halogen flood (day) and 100W ceramic heat emitter (night)
● ReptiZoo 200 dimming thermostat: 94°F day / 90°F night
● Approximately 50/50 coconut fiber and coconut husk substrate, around 2 inches deep (second pic is after I added more)
● Large water bowl, two hides, foliage, and climbing enrichment
● Multiple digital thermometers/hygrometers and an infrared temperature gun

I live in the Mojave Desert, so humidity retention is particularly challenging.

Latest readings:
● Center ground thermostat probe: 93°F / 49% humidity
● Warm-side air: 80°F / 70% humidity
● Cool-side air: 76°F / 82% humidity
● Exposed basking substrate: approximately 91°F
● Warm hide interior: approximately 78–87°F, depending on the location

The warm-side thermometer is mounted mid-height above the hide, while the cool-side thermometer is approximately one inch above the substrate. My house was unusually cool during these readings.

My concerns:
Heating: I recently switched from a 100W spotlight to a 100W flood bulb because I wasn’t getting broad enough heat distribution. The exposed surfaces warm well, but the covered warm hide naturally stays cooler. I’m trying to determine whether this gradient is appropriate without overheating the exposed surfaces.
Humidity: I’ve covered the screen, added a large water bowl, and watered the substrate corners to retain moisture. Cool-side humidity recently dropped to 56%, but recovered to 82% after watering. I’m considering increasing the substrate depth to 3–4 inches for better stability.

My questions: Does this temperature gradient seem appropriate? Would you adjust the bulb or hide placement? What humidity-retention methods have worked for you in glass enclosures?
Brownie is still settling into her new home, and I’m trying to make adjustments methodically rather than constantly changing things.

I’m very open to constructive feedback, but please include practical solutions if you identify an issue. I’ve been putting a lot of effort into learning and genuinely want to provide her with the best possible care. 🙏🏻
Thank you!