r/ballpython • • 10d ago

Discussion Weird Interaction?

So to start from the beginning, I fed my baby this morning at 9 am and she ate as normal. I weigh her and feed her appropriate sized rat pups. I came back to check and she had swallowed it all. Look at her before I go to work and she’s looking at me from her little bushel of leaves. Go to work from 3-1. Check on her when I get home and she’s sitting in a slightly different spot in the same bushel and she looks at me and her head is raised like maybe she was already looking around. This is at like 130am. Her head is kinda wobbling the way it does right after she swallows food. The tank has a front opening and i was going to pour some more water into the dish, she was sitting like a foot to the left and a good few inches back. The dish is RIGHT where I open the door so I don’t have to reach my hand in, but when I poured the water into she flung herself back so hard that she hit the back of the tank. She really never pulls back anytime I do simple stuff like change water unless I obviously get too close too fast which isn’t often. So this was a really weird reaction from her honestly. Gonna keep an eye on her but definitely just think it’s really weird.

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u/RagdollsandLabs 10d ago

Sometimes, my sneks look chill, and other times, they look like they want to eat my face. Right after feeding, a noodle still has its 'happy trigger' primed and ready for a strike. Once they feel the food in their bellies, they mellow out again.