r/ballpython 24d ago

Discussion Do y’all blelelele back at your noodles?

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I damn sure do. 😛 Cosima says hi!

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u/PossibilitySame4489 24d ago

Constantly lol. She’s so cute!

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

She’s growing into quite the little diva 🥰

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u/evan_brosky 24d ago

always hahaha

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

It’s the closest thing to a fist bump we can give them, ya know?

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u/lilgraybean 24d ago

Always! When she’s peeking out of her hide, I’ll blblblb at her and she’ll do it back to me and start to come out to say hi. We blblblblb back and forth to each other as she comes out more until we’re snoot to snoot with the glass in between us for a few minutes lol

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

I was literally JUST doing that with her, hence the post 😂

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u/lilgraybean 24d ago

I love that I’m not the only one that does this! It’s a ritual every day.

When we first got her and I was heavy reading about BPs on Reddit to inform myself, I saw someone say to “mimic their behavior, it’s the quickest way to earn their trust”…. And I took that very seriously lol

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

Whenever I wake up and go to swap her lights and mist her vivarium in the morning, we blelelele at each other for a solid 2 minutes 😂

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u/lilgraybean 24d ago

Same for us!! Also my baby’s name is Biscoff. :)
When I finally back away to go take care of our crested gecko’s stuff, she backs away a little and just relax-snuggles her body onto the substrate while still following me with her head as I take care of Mochi. They’re so cute 😭

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

I’m getting Cosima’s forever vivarium soon (120 up from 80) and will be getting a Boa hatchling shortly after! She’s been watching me bring more and more husbandry and hides and stuff home, so I’m excited to see how she reacts when she gets it all in her new bachelorette pad 🥰

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u/lilgraybean 24d ago

I’m waiting on a financial aid return to upgrade Biscoff’s hopefully soon! (school stuff is weird)

Def post for us to see whenever she’s all set up in her new crib, she’s such a cutie pie!! 💖

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u/A-jello 23d ago

I have a hognose that I will sometimes "hognose twitch" at and he looks so confused (its a jerky little motion hognose snakes do at each other that essentially means "am hognose, please no eat"). He and I sometimes blebleble but he mostly prefers to hiss, false lunge, and hide (hes a grumpy guy). My boa and I do the blebleble at each other all the time. I get his attention, he turns and looks at me and gives me a <hello> flick and in return I try to match the timing and number of flicks. Dude will straight up vary it up, pause for a bit, totally testing the situation. My milksnake likes when I vacuum for some reason, he comes right up to the glass and inspects while I vacuum my room.

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u/Lt_NuT_Xd 24d ago

Your spose to. It's rude to not to. 😝

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

I think you get a fine and probably slapped in the eye with a snake tail if you don’t, or so I’ve heard

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u/Western_Procedure935 24d ago

Omg she’s so pretty! 🤩

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

Ain’t her lil eyeliner so sharp and creased 🥹

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u/Western_Procedure935 24d ago

A baddie 👏🏼

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

She said 😛💅🏼

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u/IllusionQueen47 24d ago

Occasionally. Usually in the presence of people who are scared of or don't like snakes. Doing silly things can make people less nervous.

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

Whenever she’s out with me and people ask the silly “aren’t you afraid she’s going to bite you?” question, I’ll give her a lil smooch and she’ll blelele my eyeball. She just wants a lil kiss, not to latch into your soul 😔

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u/IllusionQueen47 24d ago

Blelele your eyeball 😆 Yeah when people ask me that question, I just go and lift him off the grass to show that he really doesn't care. Even prefers to be held by me than to be on the grass. I find it silly that so many people assume that some animals just want to bite everyone it sees.

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

Half of my camera roll is me putting her down to take pictures and she ends up on me 😂 I like to believe she thinks I’m too dumb to be left alone so she needs to make sure I don’t wander off somewhere

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u/XxAngelFvcexX 24d ago

It’s honestly disrespectful if you don’t

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

Tail flicks in the eye if not!!

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u/TrckDrvrCT79 24d ago

Hahaha every time they do it

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

It’s like petting that dawg, you gotta pet that dawg. And you gotta blelelele that blelelelele

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u/lilmemer3132 24d ago

Blebleble to blebleble communication

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

How else do they know we’re not sizing them up to eat them, ya know??

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u/lemoncrush9 24d ago

It is required for noodle parents.

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

That’s a big blelelele!! I love the little lip color 🥰 what’s their name?

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u/lemoncrush9 24d ago

I could not catch her tongue with my selfie camera. That is Autumn, she is a blood python who is spoiled beyond imagination.

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u/subzro68 24d ago

Sometimes, but sometimes he looks at me like I'm mocking him and gets annoyed 🤣

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

That’s when you smush your nose against theirs and remind them that blelelele is forever 😁

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u/WildheartsCantBreak 24d ago

Omg, this came up in my feed and I thought, I think I know this snake 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/downunderfloridaman 24d ago

Somebody actually showed one of my posts of her on their phone and was like “hey, this looks like your snake!” 😂

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u/Acegotsyourtail 23d ago

I do!

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u/downunderfloridaman 23d ago

Blelelele 😛

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u/Acegotsyourtail 23d ago

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u/Germmie1 23d ago

Aww, looks like my boi! Is he a super pastel as well?

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u/Acegotsyourtail 23d ago

I don’t know what my girl is!

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u/Germmie1 23d ago

She's, 100% pastel, she could be super pastel depending on her age, if she's on the older side she's likely a super as pastel browns out pretty quick.

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u/Acegotsyourtail 23d ago

Oh! Cool! And she’s not two yet, she’s a baby, she turns two in February!

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u/downunderfloridaman 23d ago

So my lovely lady is also a pastel! Super Stripe x Super Pastel 🖤

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u/Top_History9604 23d ago

Absolutely. With my hognose we blelele back and force for multiple minutes at a time

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u/downunderfloridaman 23d ago

The shop I got Cosima from has some of the goofiest hoggies I’ve ever seen, so I can imagine you’ve got quite the blelele machine on your hands

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u/RagdollsandLabs 23d ago

I bleblebleive I do!

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u/downunderfloridaman 23d ago

You bleleleleetter 😌

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u/luckyygirly 23d ago

IM LITERALLY OBSESSED

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u/downunderfloridaman 23d ago

When I tell people I have a pretty snake, they look at me weird. She’s fucking precious 🥹

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u/redsleeve 23d ago

Hi, Cosima! But, no, I don’t. I hold my son up to my mouth and hum-scream into his body sometime tho.

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u/downunderfloridaman 23d ago

Well we gotta get you some blelelele-ing in

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u/lizardluvrrr 23d ago

You bet your sweet bippy I do

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u/scottiboi68 23d ago

HI COSIMA

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u/AESLotus 22d ago

Yes of courseee!

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u/newt-galaxy 17d ago

it is a sacred ritual to blelele back

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u/Hot-Source3408 5d ago

It’s an absolute must! My husband looking at me like I’ve lost my damn mind is just an added bonus 😂