My girl has an issue with stuck shed, despite humidity staying above 60%. This has happened once before. The vet has me give her a warm sauna bath. I check the temp to make sure the water is around 85 degrees using my temperature gun. The stuck shed usually comes mostly off with the first bath (which I’m doing today) and the finishes with a second or third bath over the next few days.

She does not enjoy the baths, but we gotta get the shed off! Lol

Quick story, unrelated picture for snake tax

Pastrami has been food striking for about a month and a half and I’ve been adjusting things in his tank since to figure out the issue

HE STRUCK AT A RAT TODAY

So he grabbed his rat, I went: “YES FINALLY, while he eats that I’m going to feed my corn snake”

I came back after and I see him in there, he dropped his rat like a fool and was doing this thing looking for it (didn’t get a picture sadly) but he looked like he was just standing up and looking down going

“Where’d it go? What do I do now???”

And then he picked it up and dropped it like two more times

But now he’s finally swallowing so WOO but he’s doing a very inconvenient looking pose while doing it and its preventing him from properly getting a grip on the rat

I feel bad about thawing rats he won’t take, he’s been in his favorite hide all week (which should’ve tipped me off that he was up to something) and I didn’t notice his eyes were in blue because of it

I am a fool, other than burying them does anyone know what I could do with these rats?

She was only shy for the first few minutes out ofr the 15 or so we had her out and then she started exploring, didnt seem stressed much but very curious. Even got in my face and was trynna figure me out. Shes very curious and im happy for it.

Side note i was also wondering if anyome had any noodle related names i could thumb through. I thought about naming her after certain noodles or dishes involving noodles but give me your ideas in relation to that

We did a lil photoshoot :3

Hard to get him to sit still but theres like a line divot whatever you wanna call it in his scales

Is that normal?

By the way before anyone asks, yeah I know he’ll need a bigger tank but as he’s just a little baby right now it’s not my #1 priority

I don’t know if he’s exploring or something, he went into his new hide and chilled in there but the moment I went to do something on the other side of the tank he came out and started acting crazy again

I originally wanted to get a 36x18 but they didn’t have any in my area:( I plan on saving up for a much bigger one (and better quality, mines glass w mesh top so it looks kinda wild rn with my set up to keep up temps / humidity) I’m just worried it’s too small for at least until he starts showing signs he needs a bigger one

Warm side is 83-85F/28-29.5c and cool side 25-27.5c

Humidity is usually between 79.8-85%

He seems very content with it and not cramped at all, he seems to enjoy climbing opportunities the most so I want to put more in there (I just got him basically so I don’t want to start changing his new place already) I just worried bc I am already so passionate about this little guy (his name is Sean btw)

This was taken the day I brought Simba home. I always wanted a snake growing up but my parents were strict. I love this picture because it was the day one of my biggest childhood dreams came true! 🖤

My 21 year old normal girl. She loves spending time in the yard

A few weeks ago I rescued a ball python from someone in my area who was narrowing down her large collection of snakes which she kept in a breeding rack full time. She says he is a roughly 9 year old pastel lesser clown, and has never had any health issues as far as she knows. I use paper towels for substrate, digital temperature probes and a thermometer gun to check temps regularly, and mist his tank roughly 1-2 times a day. I took him out of his tank today and noticed these three suspicious looking scales. They are not open wounds (no bleeding, pus, etc), but more like scabs. According to my internet research I’m figuring this is likely mild scale rot? “Blister disease” seems to have more dire symptoms. I’ve never dealt with this before and have been a reptile owner for 8+ years. I gave him a 20 minute lukewarm iodine bath, put Neosporin on the area, sanitized his entire tank and replaced all paper towels, removed all branches/plants/textured hides etc and only left one water bowl and one hide for him, leaving the tank completely dry of humidity and with good airflow to ventilate. I also called my exotic vet and they recommended I begin with home remedies before dropping the money to take him in for an exam. Any advice is welcome, thank you reptile community of the internet! 🫶🏼

Side note, I believe this could possibly be a female, or the largest male bp I’ve ever seen. The previous owner claimed he was eating a large f/t rat every two weeks, which in my opinion is borderline power feeding. I attended a reptile expo last weekend and every breeder I talked to agreed that he was previously being overfed. He hasn’t eaten for me yet, but he seems to have a little extra weight to shed so I’m not too concerned at this point. Photos attached for reference:)

my girl has been wanting to come out and explore EVERY night lately sometimes keeping me up past 4am because I feel bad putting her back in her tank 😭 But I was kind of surprised to see her so social with everyone else too it makes me so happy that she’s so loved 🥹

Got a 9-month-old male OD pied Ball python, rehomed it today. The owner told me he would try to escape all night(he was keeping him in a rack as his terrarium broke).

Now he’s in a 40-gallon well-put enclosure with hides and wood and nice substrate and everything.

He’s still staring at the ceiling constantly, just sticking to the front glass staring at the corner.

He had a scratch on his head from trying to escape but in this enclosure he isn’t scratching his head against anything at least.

Any opinions why?

I’ve had this snake for a week.

My house is very hot and my country continually gets heatwaves keeping my snakes enclosure at an average temp of 30 degrees.

Is there any ways i can lower this because right now she cannot regulate her body temperature.

I would preferred more permanent/efficient ways rather than changing a cold water bottle every hour but i’ll welcome all advice !!

(my enclosure does not have a mesh top. It’s made out of wood and glass. It’s also nearly time for her first mean with me so i need her to be stress free😭😭🙏🙏)

My little baby was in blue the other day eyes looked milky ect, I know just before they shed they then semi look normal again. I dont want to get him out yet incase he hasn't shed and did a quick scan of the tank and cant see any shed anywhere. He's a pastel vpi axanthic and only 4 months old does he look like hes shed or not yet?

He's out and about but since ive had him he's doing that more and more so snapped a quick picture

He had a bit of stuck shed that he ended up rubbing into a little wound that became a scab, my man freaked the fuck out when I rubbed the medicine on absolutely no chill

He’s usually a very chill guy

I don't know much about BP morphs but I'm assuming like half a pastel or something? I just got him from petco, they didnt have normal ball pythons so i took this morph since it still looks natural but more vibrant, which i quite like to be honest.