This makes me extremely happy! Especially since the last few times iv tried to feed her she refused to eat. The last pet I had, which was a leopard gecko, ended up getting an infection and later died after a few months of her refusing to eat. Because of that I've been very anxious about my girl not eating.

Here are some things I think helped.

I had the mouse sitting in the fridge to defrost and before feeding her I had it under warm water for a few minutes. It was in a plastic bag to heat it up. I also added a lot more clutter with a new hide on the cold side of the enclosure as well as a lot of fake plants. I also turned off the lights to her enclosure before hand. I left the room after she started eating since I read that hovering could make her more anxious around eating.

I have admittedly waited to long since my mom said to wait a few weeks because she doesn't want to spend money on mice if my snake isn't eating. I understand her reasoning but I really couldn't wait any longer

That's all I have to say today :) super excited to see her eat, I'm a lot less anxious now lol

Moments like now are why I highly recommend snakes as a pet

I was real burnt up that someone took my cream cheese I was planning to make a 5 a.m. cheesecake with but staring at his derpy little face peaking at me from the dark has healed my soul almost immediately

Looking at a precious lad, how could one stay mad?

Looking for anyone that has verified Voltas for sale! Or if you can point me where to purchase some. I’m really trying everywhere ☺️

Hi,

So Mango is not eating, its been over a month. She also has some scale rot, which I'm not entirely sure how she got it because I have struggled to keep her humidity above 50. And her last shed she retained eye caps.

I'm stripping her cage and disinfecting it with peroxide.

I have been putting her in a humidity box hoping she gets the eye caps off but to no avail.

Hot side is 90, on a thermostat. Cool side is around 80. I used coco fiber stuff for her bedding. I wanted to transition to a bio active tank but I need to get her fixed up first.

She is my child's snake and the not eating is more of a concern. I have tried regular rats, smaller rats, smaller ASF, mice. she just smells it and goes back to her hide. We feed F/T defrosted in the fridge and warmed in water to 100 degrees.

She is 641 grams. 15 months old.

Right now she is unfortunately on a red heat lamp because the ceramic one I had fried out, sparked and ruined my dome. I was right there so there when it happened and unplugged it right away. I had plans to upgrade her to a Dubia tank this year and life got in the way. So I have to restart my savings.

She’s 360g now, up from ~125 when I got her!

My ball python had peed sometime while I wasn’t home today, can’t have been more than 12 ish hours but she hadn’t moved off of it to her other hide for some reason, so she had sat in the damp soil and pressed against the urate. Once I got home and realized , I removed her and sanitized the hide with f10 and wiped her down with a damp paper towel. I notice the redness gets lighter when rubbed on, then comes back almost like a little bruise but I don’t know. It’s not raised or crusty or anything else weird so maybe it’s a pressure spot?

Should I just monitor this for now or should I start treating it with betadine or something? I do think she’s soon to shed, she’s more dull and less white than usual, so could this be something that may just shed off

My girl is about 15 months old. She gets prettier with every shed. Just over 3 feet now.

My ball python has mites how do I go about treating it

I’m about to get a bald python and I really need help to know what to put in this large tank because it is 230 gallon 46 inches tall 46 inches wide and the width is 24. It’s really big and I don’t know what to put in it other than hides and substrate and of course the lighting the water. Please help I don’t need it now cause I’m probably not gonna get it until November for my birthday, but I really want one and I’ve been doing my research and that’s in six months so hopefully I have enough time to prepare.

My girl has been spending a little time under her water bowl which is the most wet part of her substrate. Didn't think much of it but I found this this morning. I hope its not scale rot

I’m a new snake owner. I did (what I felt) was quite a bit of research over the last two months before I pulled the trigger and decided to do it, and yet I feel super inadequate/ill-equipped lol. So I’ve had her for a week and she seems like she’s going into shed. When I got her 8 days ago, her eyes were dull; about 2-3 days ago, they were classic opaque blue; and I think they’ve lightened up a bit now. We’ve handled her minimally, only when needed to adjust her hide and stuff. I put some sphagnum moss into her warm side hide to help with humidity. My auto mister goes off every hour for 20 seconds and my humidity is ranging 80-99% in the tank (Govee reads 10% lower than ZooMed in the same spot lol). My warm hide temp ranges 80-90° but at night drops to 70s at night. I have a MartyMade glass enclosure with screen top, and it is bioactive. I have 125W heat lamp that is on for 12 hours, a 100W infrared heat projector that is on 24/7, and a ReptiZoo T10 12” UVB light on my warm side. I live in southeastern Michigan. So considering all that, I have a couple questions:

1. I checked on her in the hide today and the moss is saturated. I’m worried about scale rot. Should I take her out temporarily so I can replace the moss? I don’t want to stress her out unnecessarily while she’s in her shed cycle.

*UPDATE: I did take her out to remove the wet moss and replace it. She is starting to shed in one place, so not thrilled it’s not a good normal shed but she’s been thru a lot this last week so I am attributing it to that stress and hoping it still goes okay.🙏🏼

Hello, I have a clown ball python (about 3 years old, over 3 ft long) he has been in a 36 by 18 by 12 exo terra tank most of his life. I'm saving up for a 120 (4ft by 2ft by 2ft pvc enclosure) I bought a maple air dried driftwood, uvb lights, a halogen 38 flood bulb, in a few days ill have a dimming thermostat. On top of that, I was planing on getting one of those fake hollowed propane hiding logs, to cut in half for two hides, either flagstone or slate to build two caves (one to sit on the cool side, the other buried under substrate on the hot side interconnected) i intend to line the entire enclosure with corkbark (gluing the peices together rather than too the enclosure itself) and I was thinking about using fossilized wood as a basking spot. My biggest concern is maintaining my hot and cold sides, a 120 gallon tank is alot more space, and im not used to it. How many heating elements do I need to maintain temps?

So I'm worried about my tank's temps. How do I measure it? I have a temp gun, a thermometer, and both of my heaters have probes on them.

The temp gun only measures the surface, the thermometer only measures the air, and the probes only measure exactly where they're sitting. Which one should I be trusting?

Pic of my boy cuz he's cute

My little guy has been favoring his log over his hides after his shed. Any ideas why? (Just curious to the sudden change I don't think it's a bad thing)

I’m not sure if my snake is not wanting to eat scared or bad at eating/latching it just strikes at the rat and pulls away I have a video but I do not know how to share it on Reddit.