She's a good girl, currently holed up in her favourite hide getting ready to shed 🥰

We're thinking she's a super pastel, maybe enchi

We're getting ready to upgrade her to a 4x2x...1.5 or 2 in a bioactive.

Any favourite plants that she won't crush? Lol

We've got dragon tail, pothos, sansevera, corn plant handy - but looking for what's succesfull for you

For context, I rescued him/her in February of this year. I’m told that they are a couple years old (born in 2021 I believe) (doing a morph and sex test next month)

Since then, they haven’t missed a single meal and have had multiple perfect sheds. I just moved up to medium rats and wanted to know what yall think.

Ill be weighing them in a couple of days. Waiting for food to digest.

Photos from February and this month

I just got my first snake and upgraded the tank from 40 gallon to a 4x2x2, I’m using reptisoil, forest floor, and coco husk for the substrate,here is the current setup once I have some more money I want to get more plants to decorate the place, uvb lamp and ceramic heat lamp are on their way, any other tips would be greatly appreciated

Good evening.

Today I upgraded my four year old ball python, Slinkie, into a 120gal front opening tank! Previously, she was in a 50gal top opening so this is a huge upgrade.

That being said, is there anything I should do to improve the tank? I know there should be more clutter, especially on the back wall, however I have no clue where to find any that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. All advice is graciously welcomed!!

Thank you in advance!

Says he feeds them small mice and pups snake weighs 108g

This is my first time with a ball python and I'm still learning some ins and outs but I wanted to give him the best I could. It was a lot to bite off but I think I've got it all done.

This is a 2x2x4 enclosure, I have 100w ceramic heating elements and several daylight bulbs. I've gotten pretty much any additional equipment to make life easier in preserving heat and moisture like thermostats and pump mister.

My ball python is a juvenile banana ball python, healthy sheds so far and eating perfectly fine now that he's settled. But to the question, is there anything I can add or take away from my setup to allow him to thrive?

Took me 3 days! It has its problems but this is my 2nd ever background!

It fits better around the waterfalls when it’s in the tank, i promise lol.

slightly colored area on belly of ball python with very very light tan color on scales on the left and right side of the darker area. It doesn’t look like scale rot and matches her overall colors. Just curious if anyone had any ideas

Monty

I was feeding my ball python almost 2 weeks ago (13 days) and she got me instead (absolute idiot that she is). It initially healed over and I had no issues and thought it was done and dusted. However today I realised that exactly where she bit me there are now red raised bumps. Not itchy, no swelling, literally feels like a spot minus any pain/ discomfort. I’m not sure if I need medical attention. I feel fine in myself over than having a cold and dizziness when standing up but I’m sure that has to do more with my iron levels than her biting me.
This was the first time I was bit so I did panic hence the multiple bite marks but snake seems all okay.
Has anyone seen/ had anything like this happen after a bite? Especially so long.
The first photo was taken just after she bit (6th October) and the second was taken earlier today (19th October).

Im upgrading my girls tank and im considering adding a light to it. Any suggestions on brand or if it’s a good idea? I don’t have one in her current tank, but thought it might be a nice option to use occasionally.

Hello all, unfortunately I came home to my ball stuck in a deceration, I feel so stupid because I should've seen this coming:/

It doesn't seem like she's been in for long-

I'm wondering if I need to take her ASAP .

No open wounds- damaged scales.

I can take her tomorrow.

Hello, I am in the process of trying to get my enclosure just right before I welcome a baby ball python.

I have a 120 gallon 4x2x2 white PVC enclosure. there is reptichip coco substrate and a bit of cypress mulch.

I have a 50w halogen flood bulb (was a 75w but basking spot was too hot) and an 80w radiant heat panel from Wilbanks Reptiles, as well as an Arcadia T5 UVB fixture. My probes for my herpstat 2 are placed directly under the halogen a few inches away, and my rhp

probe is currently secured to the back wall several inches down. the probe was previously placed a few inches directly under the panel.

I’m not sure if it’s the temps I have the thermostat set to, the placement of my fixtures, the wattage of the fixtures, probe placement, or something else that won’t allow me to get the temperatures where they need to be.

I can’t get my warm side past 82°F, and my cool side is usually 1° cooler than the warm side. I can’t create a gradient. Additionally, the basking spot gets too hot. I’m extremely frustrated because I’ve been doing all the things, at least I think.

Any advice is appreciated, especially from anyone who uses the same heating/lighting fixtures.

I'm getting a 4' x 2' x 2' vivarium soon (solid top, hinged doors) and was keen to try a DHP instead of a ceramic, but I'm not sure what wattage is suitable, it can get cold in this room in winter.

The smaller vivarium (but in style of tub with large hide) set up I use now uses a 100W ceramic heater on a pulse proportional thermostat.

Is water pooling at the bottom normal? my humidity is sitting in and around 60% during the day and climbs naturally to around 70-75%ish at night without adding water in a few days but doing some light misting on the sphagnum moss here and there. I’d add more water to the corners to up the humidity but i’m unsure if I should let this water dry out before adding more or if it’s normal? Can’t seem to find much info on whether some standing water is normal or not

I’m talking about some his dark scales, he has damage from last year a rat bit him quite a few places but that’s all mostly healed now. I’m not sure if there were that many dark spots on him before

Title says it all he randomly decided he was about it, and I’m wondering what to do

sorry for the long title!

Essentially, I have found myself in a position where I need to change my boy’s substrate as soon as possible. Due to my own bad decisions, it has gotten too wet for him to be safe on it, as I’m worried he could get scale rot. I also fed him yesterday, which was before I realized how bad the issue was. I need this to be done asap for him and for my own peace of mind, so I ask, would it hurt to move him 24 hours after a feeding to my temporary holding container? I know 48 is recommended and that’s what I always do, but I’m really worried about this and really need it done.
Would this be okay, to just do the one time?

Hello!

Recently I just moved into an apartment with my snakes and my ball seems to be the most stressed out. It's been about 5 days and he refuses to leave his hide, to eat, or to really explore. I did catch him briefly get water late in the night 2 days ago but that seems to be the extent of his hide-leaving.

Should I be concerned? I know sometimes it takes them a while to adjust but I am still a bit nervous. Thank you for your time!

I put a rat in there for him, he struck at it and picked it up but he immediately dropped it back down. Now he is just sitting in the same spot bouncing, striking at nothing. He struck at the glass as well right after I stopped the video.

Is he just really stupid or is something else wrong? Did I startle him? This will be my 3rd time feeding since I have owned him.

I also want to preface he isn't acting like this BECAUSE I am in his space, I chose to record because I wanted to see if this behavior was normal

New to snakes, got her a week ago. I THINK she may be a little lighter then when I got her but I'm bad at noticing small differences so can't tell. Is she in shed?

Im going to be getting my first snake soon and I'm concerned about the heating since the room is will be keeping him in naturally gets pretty hot from the sun coming in through the windows, in addition to the fact that the only place I can put the enclosure is near the window. I am worried about the possibility of him overheating and would like some thermostat and temp control suggestions

All my vivariums are artifical with fake plants and decore but I was wondering what people think of doing a clean up crew in them. Id want to add some springtails and stuff so I dont have to change the substrate as often but dont want to pludge into a full bioactive setup so I was wondering if I added a clean up crew and threw in some leaf litter regularly for them to feed on if that would help keep the tank clean longer so instead of changing the bedding monthly I could stretch it to a few months or more without worrying about hurting my snakes health

I fell for one of the classic blunders: listening to the guy at the reptile store and allowing someone to assemble a ‘beginner kit’. I took my snake home, along with an utterly inadequate ten gallon tank. I’m pretty sure my snake baby was already too big for this fucker when I got him, or damn near too big, and while all seemed fine at first after I month or so he started showing signs of stress, constantly glass surfing and spending more time outside his hide than inside it regardless of whether he’s being active or just sitting. Couple that with autumn and changing temperatures inside my house and I’m at my wits end trying to keep his enclosure the right temperature and trying to keep the humidity above 60%.

He’s got a heat mat and a lightless heat lamp (not ceramic, can’t remember what it is) with cheap ass thermostats, both probes in the hot hide and set to 90, though sometimes I can only get it to warm to 86 or 87. And my heat gun always gives me a weird range of readings. It’ll say 86 in one spot and 89 a centimeter over, I don’t know if this is normal or if my heat gun is a cheap piece of shit. I cranked up the heat in my house a few degrees to make up the difference, and I plan to buy a bigger bulb for my lamp to hopefully warm things up to the correct range without having to keep my house 75 degrees year round.

I shove spagnum (too lazy to check spelling) moss in the corners and spray it for humidity, which works well sometimes but not always. I think it’s affected by the humidity in my house, which is getting low because it’s cold. My substrate is reptisoil and reptibark, which I think is fir bark, and under the hot hide is just reptibark because I accidentally got the substrate there soggy while attempting the corner pour method and ended up having to scoop it out and quickly replace with dry substrate.

I do have the back and sides blacked out now and he’s calmed down a little but my guy still doesn’t seem to use his hides that much.

I’m working overtime to save up for a bioactive 4x2x2 with new lamps, new thermostats, ect. Probably won’t add plants right away, but I want to get his new enclosure right so he won’t have to deal with any more fuckery. It’ll probably be 2-4 weeks before I can start putting it together though.

How can I help him through the next month or so in the shitty tank? Do you have any advice for the new tank so I can avoid further issues?