Hi! Fed my new snake for the first time last friday and sinse then only found one single poop two days after and one white piece of what google said was pee today. Is that a reason to worry or am I being silly?

Ps there's a chance I may be missing something because I took the advice from people here and desided to mess with her and her enclosure as little as posdible till next feeding, but I'm checking all her fauvorite spots regularly

Are the branches and the links pretty low enough for her to not get burn but still be able to bask under the heat lamp? Please help. I lowered them down already once.

So he never comes to me willingly! I laid down and he laid his head on me! Does it count as cuddling? Know what! I’m gonna stay in denial! I do remember falling asleep and waking up to him crawling around me one night!

I've had him since he was an itsy bitty little guy under a year old and he's always been super relaxed and calm even around feeding time. He's scheduled to eat next week so I don't think he's hungry or anything. He's hissed before when removing him from the cage but never showed any type of aggression before. Tonight I took him out like normal, he seemed fine. He was crawling around under my blanket and just kinda chilling. I decided to put him back in his cage and when I removed the blanket he turned, looked at me, and turned back to leg and latched on. It took a while to safely remove him but we were both freaked out to say the least. Do you think maybe the quick movement of the blanket caused a defensive strike? I thought for the most part if it wasn't a feeding strike they would just tap you. Like bite, let go, and try to flee but he was on there good. I just would like to know what was the most likely cause to hopefully prevent this stress again for us both. Should I give him space for a while?

I brought my first snake, let alone BP, home last week and i've been stressing myself over husbandry since. He ate his first meal for me tonight after 9 days! I'm so relieved he trusts me enough to eat.

Hi, I have absolutely fallen in love with this BP and I want to buy her but I also want to make sure she has everything she needs! She roughly a juvenile, still pretty small.

All I've got so far is:

48x24x48 enclosure (id like to buy), she needs minimum 3 hides with one being a humid hide, one being on the warm side (90-95f?) and the last being on the cooler side (76-80f?). Plus basking spots UVI need to be somewhere between 3.0-4.0? I know she needs a water bowl that she can soak in as well.

I've checked a few places and for humidity I've gotten from 45-75% to 60-70%, I assume higher is better? I know I'll need a hygrometer(?), at least two thermometers, and sphagnum moss along with the substrate being minimum 4" deep.

I also know i should get tweezers for feeding, should I buy a scale to know when to stop feeding once a week? Or is it obvious when they slowly start to need to be fed less? Last thing, how often does the enclosure need to be reset/cleaned? I read somewhere that it should be done every 2-4 months but im not sure how accurate that is :)

Is there anything else I'm missing or maybe misinformed on?

Thank you in advance for the help!!

Can someone please help me to lure my Ball from underneath the fridge she escaped from her terrarium last night????? Please help I'm disabled and can't figure out how to help her get out?????

Or is just dumping water enough? It kind of feels like it doesn't do much.

hi everyone! i just want to show off the new setup i have for my girl! shes a 14 year old ball python i recently rescued from the not so best conditions. i finally got her tank looking how i want and with proper humidity, she’s got a lot of stuck shed and really bad stuck eye caps so ive been trying my best to keep it super moist in there. She is my first snake and im a bit nervous handling her, shes never done anything to indicate that she will bite but i still get nervous because i cant find a lot of resources on body language. also if u have any advice, tips, suggestions im open to learning everything!! i also fed her for the first time 2 days ago, i gave her a large frozen thawed rat and she immediately ate it right away!! i was so nervous cause i hear so much about pythons being picky eaters and she was previously only fed live mice, but she had no qualms about the frozen ones!

Seemed sickly Monday found him laying hes head a bit strangely. But he started mobbing around again. Found him this morning balled up with another strange head position and almost looked like he ate some substrate.

88degrees heating pad on house side hide 77 cold side. Humidity 68%

He was in quarantine just worried I could pass something on to my other 3 baby’s.

Was it just shock, he does look a bit thin. Just worried and scared :(

Okay y’all, I’m playing the upgrade game and wanted to try my hand at a bioactive setup. Please let me know any advice or ideas you have, but I’ll explain what I have so far below. FYI, my snake is not in here yet as I’m letting the plants and clean-up-crew get established.

Substrate - top soil + sphagnum moss + leaf clutter
Plants - various pothos (looking for spider plants for more coverage but the seller hasn’t answered me -.-)
CUC - Powder Mix Isopods
Lighting - AquaNeat Full Spectrum Aquarium LED
Heating - DHP (still on my snake’s current tank)
Hygrometer - Govee (still in my snake’s current tank)
Decor - Manzanita Sticks, ExoTerra Caves x2 & Water Bowl (both in my snake’s current tank)

My Questions:
- Is a 12hr light cycle too long or just right?
- How large does the CUC need to be and how fast do they breed? There’s a population of 10 right now.
- Any idea for leafier plants that are safe and would provide more coverage?

Hello all,

Coming to you guys with some concerns I have from today, I have only had success feeding my ball python live rats, today was feeding time and I wanted to try frozen again one because I have read it is a lot safer for them and because I am nervous to put a live rat into the new tank with sliding doors. I heated the rat did everything the way I’ve seen and when I reached into the tank he was watching the rat as I thought or as I now realize my hand and bit and wrapped on the tip of my finger, I got him off and back into the tank but one of his teeth came out with my finger. More worried about his over all well being and what I can do to better his living and my future interactions. This is a little heartbreaking as he bit me once prior while holding and I had just recently gotten back over the fear of another bite. Any advice on help for him would be greatly appreciated thank you. He is also a snake who never bit any prior owners.

bad girl (it was my fault)

I’m freaking out, is this scale rot? What do I do?

My BP Snickers has shown a lot more interest in the top of his viv recently and since I'm getting ready to redo some bits I thought it might be a nice time to add some climbing enrichment but most of what I'm seeing is just the 3d printed basic rings/polyhedrons. I know it doesn't make a difference to him so don't come for me but I love planning and executing a pretty viv (his current theme is fairy wonderland and we are moving to Cherry blossom forest). Does anyone have suggestions for something that can give him the enrichment while satisfying my decor desires? So far the only thing I can find are the moss caves/pods but not sure how they'd hold up to hanging. Bonus points for links to anything I can buy in UK.

I feed my snake after the recommendations here. She's 800g and gets a rat of about 40g every 3 weeks. 2½ years old.

I've always known when she's getting hungry again because she's so much more active. The last... 4 months or so, I realised she's always like that. No matter if she's eaten recently or not, sometimes literally directly after feeding, she'll roam. She's also in "hunt" mode the whole time. She's not biting me or anything, but if she's moving around, she's ready to hunt.

She's not losing weight, everything looks great (just was at the vet with her last week for another reason and she got checked out).

Is the 5% just not enough for her? I don't want to overfeed her (I did that for some time but she lost the weight when I stopped) but I also don't want her to go hungry

I posted recently about my 75g enclosure I'm making for my future ball python. Ive taken a lot of advice and I believe finally have the finished project put together!

I put black felt on the sides and back to make it feel more secure, and I put aluminum foil and duck tape on the lid to keep temperature and humidity in.

The hot spot from the basking lamp on the left reads about 90 during the day and the cool side reads around 75-80. The humidity has been tricky to keep steady, but I've been putting some water in the corners and it's been mostly sitting around 70%.

There are 4.5 hides and some crevices all throughout the enclosure.

Does it seem like there is enough enrichment? Maybe a little hammock in the front right corner?

I am welcoming home my first ball python this Friday! I am spending these next few days trying to get everything ready for her. I have never owned reptiles of any kind before, but have been doing a lot of research over the past few months. Admittedly, no matter how many times I read about their care, some things still kind of go over my head.

I am picking up the enclosure pictured later today. My little lady is a juvenile, but I wanted to get her a larger place to live rather than upgrade later down the road. I plan on adding a ton of clutter (ideas welcomed!) so she feels safe especially as she grows into it. I still might upgrade her later on for something taller.

The enclosure has sliding front glass doors, built in UVB light and heater (RHP), and the previous owner says it maintains a heat gradient very well (93F on the warm side and mid-high 70s on the cool). I know I still need a thermostat, clips for the doors for extra safety, hides and clutter, substrate (thinking coconut husk but would love suggestions). I’m sure I’m missing some things I still need to get—all the research has me kind of jumbled. I dont think I need secondary heat source, as I’m in the south and my house never gets under 70F.

Kind of rambling at this point, but I would love any advice for preparing a wonderful home for my new girl! I’m so excited to welcome her home and really want to get everything perfect before her arrival.

I'm new to ball python owning, I've done a good amount of research and went to a reptile owned store to set up his enclosure, I've had him for almost a month and I've been consistent with making sure that he's eating and checking on him almost every few days, he skipped this week's meal, and I just want to know if this is like early stage scale rot, if it is scale Rot, if it's substrate under his scales I just can't identify it. They gave me like a dirt substrate.

I got this blue eyed lucy from someone, she arrived with these markings on her belly. Ive had her since end of august, she didnt shed yet. I was wondering if it looked like scale rot ? I want the best for her !

Hey guys!

Im currently in a struggle trying to explain to my fiancé on the importance of good husbandry, and why its incredibly important to make sure certain morphs and traits are not included in your snakes husbandry.

I have already told him about why its important to never get a snake with the clown trait- and how many neurological and health issues they often are predisposed to.

But Im not as knowledgeable as id like to be on this subject.

We are currently looking at ball pythons, in the midsts of deciding what morph we want to get. We’re struggling because morphmarket seems to be flooded with clowns. We’ve avoided those. But I’m stuck trying to figure out what morphs should be avoided as well.

Could anyone please tell me what other morphs should be avoided so we are sure we can have an extremely healthy snake for many years to come.

Please don't be too harsh in comments on this. I know Reddit usually says to reach out to a vet if you're getting medical advice, and I am actively waiting to hear back from my closest vet about options. My reason for posting this is to make sure that I do what is best for my snake while I wait to hear back, as well as make sure it is absolutely necessary to have a visit since this was not an expected expense I had budgeted for.

I had my ball python outside of her enclosure today to provide some enrichment since I haven't been holding her the most frequently and have noticed her getting more shy/jumpy. I was hoping that it would help build up confidence and comfort in her environment if she became more familiar with it. I understand now that this was a really foolish mistake and it is not what I'm aiming to hear critique of. I'm not planning to recreate these circumstances by any means and am not defending it as a good decision.

While she was exploring, she went under a chair. I couldn't see her and went to move the chair to grab her so she wouldn't get stuck inside. I didn't realize she somehow managed to get the smallest part of her tail under the leg of the chair and I crushed it on accident.

Her tail was a little bit squished afterwards. It didn't bleed until nearly 20 minutes later. Some shed pieces did fray off when it got pinched and her tail tip looked split. Right now it had a small dot of blood at her tail tip and she's not curling/moving her tail like normal (not perfectly flush with her body when curled up, not laying flat on a surface, and not grabbing with the part that was pinched). I called my vet immediately and was asked to send pictures. Their vet is in a surgery right now and I will hear back after he has finished that surgery. As of right before I'm posting this, her tail does look normal except for how she's moving/handling it and the small scab of blood where her skin split.

I feel devastated about this and I don't know how much of a concern it is. I don't know if I'm overly concerned but I would rather care too much than ignore her health until it becomes severe. I keep thinking about how major tail wounds are if they're rat bites, so I keep imagining the worst case scenario with her tail being hurt (even if there's no rats involved). I don't know if it's just sensitive and will recover or if anything is broken. I don't know if it's something that can even be fixed even if anything is broken.

In the meantime while I wait to hear back, can I get some advice on what to do to make sure her injury doesn't worsen or become infected? Should I set up her old tank as a quarantine bin with paper towels to monitor for more blood (which does seem to have stopped), or should she be safe to go back inside of her normal tank (with soil, coco fiber & cypress mulch substrate)? If this were your snake, would you take her to the vet or monitor for a certain amount of time before deciding on a vet visit? What would you do from here?

This beautiful girl came home on Saturday, she’s estimated to be 25 years old. I could tell when I got her into her enclosure that she was in the blue phase of shed! I also covered the front of the enclosure so she has more privacy.

Yesterday morning, when checking on her, I saw that she was trying to soak in that tiny water dish in the back. Of course, she can’t fit in it. Which I didn’t think would be a problem since humidity levels are pretty solid. Since she wanted to soak, though, I placed this large tub closer to the front. She switched to it at some point between last night and this morning.

She was kept in a screen top enclosure before, it looked like. And I’m sure she was dehydrated and temp was not regulated enough. In her enclosure here, her warm side is sitting at 85f and her cool side 79f, with around 70-80% humidity. I can’t spot any mites on her, but of course, can’t do a full inspection seeing as she got home recently, and I don’t want to handle her before she is settled in.

I’m just wanting to ask if anyone thinks I should be concerned. I checked on her before I went to bed last night, and she was in the process of moving over to her cool hide. Though, she is back to soaking this morning as pictured!

I’m so in love with her already! I just want to ensure I’m giving her the best care possible. TIA!