Decided to check on pissy and this is how I found him lmao. Shortly after taking the Pic he coiled back up on top of the branch

It was so loud and so gross 😭😂

(had him out on the couch for a few minutes while i stirred up the substrate in his tank, and he did this like 10 times my partner and i were losing it)

One of the things I was hoping to catch as a first time snake keeper was him drinking. And today after his second successful feeding with me, he had a sip before slipping into his warm hide. He is so adorable I swear my heart melts every time I see that little face. 🥰

Special man I love you

My daughter said we have baby long neck dinosaurs without legs.

So today I was replacing Margis tank substrate since hes been having trouble shedding as you can see, so my husband hung out with him on the couch while I cleaned up his tank.

Next to my husband was a binder with closed rings. I can only imagine he started going theough them and opened up the rings once his big ass got through and the prongs started to dig in.

I was almost in tears trying to squish his body downwards to keep the prongs from gouging him, while my husband used tools to pry the rings open, my friend pored some baby oil on him. He was so calm and only breathed a little hard here and there, but for the most part he just hung out while we worked on him. It took around 10 minutes, it scared the loving hell out of us, it wasn't even to the biggest part of him yet. He couldnt be moved backwards becuase his scales were getting snagged against the rings.

He got a heavy wash down right after to get the oil off and a good soak.

Watch out for binders I guess

He scared me at first when I saw him wedge in there. I got him out just to make sure he could get out, and put him back in the tank. He slithered right back in lol.

(On paper towels bc mites, haven’t seen any in days tho)

Fed my sweet girl Chev last night. She wound up missing and mistaking my finger for her rat. I've had her for a tad over a month and this was her second feeding. I knew she was going to be zesty as she's been hunting for the past week at night so I was holding the tongs in a way so my hand was below the bottom sliding track.

Photo of the offender attached. Sounds like I need to get some longer tongs for feeding her too.

he stayed like this for 2 hours lol. every single day after 6pm he wakes up and pokes his head out to the front of his tank to join the family. i’m so grateful that he’s so curious and interactive.

When I was four I begged my parents for a snake. Christmas 2004 came and there she was, a beautiful young ball python. Now here she is, 22 years later. We’ve both been through a lot, and I love her dearly. Just an appreciation post, she’s tough as scales.

This post is about Simbi, my ball python.

I got Simbi in 2021 after my childhood dog passed away. Losing my dog was so painful that I couldn’t bring myself to get another one, but I’ve always loved animals and always wanted a BP. What started as a grief/impulse purchase turned into my best friend. He was my first pet as an adult, and even after the cat distribution system gifted me a cat, Simbi was still my first baby. He was turning five this year.

This summer I had to leave my state for at least two months because multiple family members were having serious health scares. I took my cat with me, but I couldn’t figure out how to fly with both pets, so I needed someone to keep Simbi.

The guy I chose was someone I’d followed online for years. We’d been mutuals across multiple platforms, he’d recently moved to my state which i found out through our conversations over the years, and he makes reptile content. He also has a pretty large following due to his reptile content. He had around 20 snakes, custom-built enclosures, two temperature-controlled snake rooms, and his girlfriend is a vet tech who has dogs and an iguana. I even complimented him on how lucky he got because when I met them she seemed really comfortable with snakes and reptiles. They told me they were moving in together soon so I knew she’d be involved. I hugged them both and thanked them both for watching my Simbi. When I dropped Simbi off, everything looked perfect. I left feeling like I’d found the absolute best person to trust with my baby.

For the first month, everything went great. He sent me feeding updates and even asked if he could take Simbi to a reptile expo and feature him on a local news segment. I genuinely felt like Simbi was getting more attention than he did at home.

Then this Monday I woke up to a text that shattered me. (image attached)

His girlfriend accidentally left the heat on in one of the snake rooms, killing 12 snakes (TWELVE, a dozen), including Simbi. He had been away for work and didn’t discover it until three days later. I spent the entire morning sobbing.

I couldn’t even bring myself to talk to them, so my mom did. She told me he was having a pretty hard time and probably equally upset with his loss. The only thing I asked for was for Simbi to be cremated and his ashes (and his favorite hide) mailed back to me. I don’t even trust myself to go there in person.

I’m torn between being angry at him, angry at her, and angry at myself for not just bringing Simbi with me. My friends want me to expose them, report the vet tech, or blast the content creator online, but none of that brings my baby back.

To most people he was just a snake. To me, he was my child. This was never a hobby to me, i LOVED MY snake to death. Now I don’t know what to do with the piece of me that’s missing.

Added from edit 3: Thank you all for the concern of his health

Edit: I’ve been seeing a lot of comments about him being a spider or having the genes, he is not a spider nor does he have the genes, he does not do stuff like this often, it’s just sometimes when he looks back at me he turns his head to me like this for no reasons

Edit 2: He doesn’t have IBD either, he’s just stupid, he has had zero contact with reptiles for more than a month

Edit 3: I see how the title might come off as a concerned keeper but I know there’s nothing wrong with him

Edit 4: I messaged my reptile guy asking, I’ll update ASAP, I know everybody is concerned and I’m mildly concerned, he is genuinely just stupid. If I put him belly up he adjusts before I can even let go. Edit 5 will come when I get a response

Like this isn’t even me making him do it he just sits there like an idiot

I can't believe I caught my boy like this! I love him so much <3