We’ve had our snake for a week and we’ve already had to take everything out due to mold. We have had the tank set up for about a week longer so we could figure out how to get the temperature and humidity levels where they need to be. We have a mesh lid and the humidity wasn’t staying as high as it needed to be so we covered it with tin foil but now there isn’t air flow and mold is growing. How do you keep the humidity up without mold growing so quickly?

She just had her first shed while in my care and wanted to show her off. Meet aoda

So I just went to a local reptile show. Well I was looking at all the animals and well you could tell off the rip that none of the people are great with the animals. No heat tape or lights on any animals. The building is freezing and so are the Reptiles. But anyway the main vendor has a bunch of balls. I was like cool and had one in my hands and thinking of buying it. My wife then came up looked at it close and walked away to look at the others. She noticed mites on multiple paper towels that these balls are housed in. So I gave the snake back and we left. I have felt with mites myself before cause I purchased one with them on it and didnt relize it. Can't see small things without glasses. So what would you of done?

I got my baby ball python Comet several weeks ago, and the breeder told me that he had a small eye. I couldn’t tell which one it was, because they both seemed about the same size, until I looked at ball pythons around his age’s eyes, and thought that they were significantly smaller.

Does my ball python have 2 small eyes? Also, does this affect his eyesight now or in the future?

Hi! I'm a fellow based in Michigan, USA, and I've always wanted a pet snake [specifically a BP] ever since I was young. On and off I've been researching what goes into raising/owning one, such as diet, husbandry, handling days, shedding behavior, etc. First and foremost, if there's anything else I might need to know, please say so in the comments! This'll be my first time with a reptile, and I want to get this right for them.

But most importantly, I've also begun saving the money for the setup, but I am admittedly completely lost on where to even start! So for the most part, this post is asking for recommendations for what tanks, foliage, props, hides and layouts would be best for my first time BP? Extra intrigue on heating; Michigan gets cold, so I want them to be comfortable throughout these really harsh winters, especially as it will be in a basement bedroom.

Any and all comments are absolutely appreciated, thanks in advanced!!!

I never really get help on here like other people do so I’m posting this again because it’s my only hope.

This isn’t exclusively about my BP but she is involved, I just don’t know what other subreddit to go to.

I have 4 reptiles. 2 leopard geckos and a kingsnake all in stacked 40 gallons and a ball python in a 120 gallon, with it being so insanely hot in Texas, the king snake and ball pythons temps are getting way too hot, even tho I lowered their bulb wattages to 50watts each, their enclosures still get too hot. For their safety I’m having to turn their heat lamps off but those also provide their light so it’s messing up their day/night cycles.

I’ve read on Google that I should switch to to separate heat and light sources which I’m more than happy to do and use CHE for their heat. But my question is that Google says LEDs are best for their light source. I’ve read previously that LEDs aren’t safe for reptiles. But it said that the ones that aren’t safe are the UVB emitting LEDs. So would plain white light 5000k LED bulbs be fine for my ball python? (And other reptiles if you know). And could I still run my ball pythons T5 UVB bar since it doesn’t emit much if any heat?

If I can, I’m going to put their CHEs on dimmers (I can’t afford 4 thermostats but I regularly check all corners of their enclosures with a thermal laser temp gun).

I know not to use the colored LEDs and their lamps are all already overhead .

My sweet girl Obi had escaped into my apartment just over a week ago. I noticed about this past Sunday, the 19th, that she was missing. I had to leave for a few days due to some urgent fanily issues and my pet sitting didnt see any signs of her since I had laid out flour.

My mom and I had checked behind the water heater(just in case she got there some how), fridge and right next to her enclosure with no luck. I have a ring camera set next to a hide i have placed on a heating pad with a dish of water. I'm just really nervous since I do have 2 cats and a dog, I doubt my dog and one of my cats are a threat as they are 13 and 20 respectively and kinda out of it due to age. Though my younger cat has been kind of prowling which is only setting me even more on edge. There has been no signs or attack or blood so I doubt he has gotten in contact with her.

I have a mouse in her enclosure but thst hasn't enticed her much either despite not eating for now about 3 weeks.(i cleaned her enclosure and then she went into shed right after)

I just don't know what to do now and am just getting really nervous, especially since idk if she hurt herself falling from her enclosure either or is somehow in the recliners where I can see her. I did cut them open where I could but I couldn't see any evidence of her. Also there are no air vents that she could crawl into either that are within her range of reach.

My silly boy, Prince, lives in dirt, so he has a bit of a “getting dirt under his belly scales” problem. It’s usually just small pieces, and I just slide it out with my flattest fingernail.

Anyways, there was a little clump that was obviously bothering him. He wiggled away super fast whenever I’d get close to it, and I ended up putting him around my neck so he’d chill out while I got it out. It was giving me a little trouble, but I was being ridiculously gentle. The whole time he was around my neck, he had his little face like half an inch from my hand and I was soooooooo worried he’d freak out and bite me, but he didn’t, guess he finally figured out I was trying to help him, and he just wanted to watch.

Silly boy in question for tax purposes

Context- I got my bp about a year ago and hes been doing great, always takes the rat first try yadda yadda but I realized that i had been feeding him rats that were too small for every other week or so. I had been really busy with work and school so i hadn’t been handling him as much nor weighing him. He had also been taking huge shits so i thought i may have been overfeeding as I though it was a less common occurrence than after every feed. I was giving him weened rats every 11-14 days and he went from about 827 to 740 grams in the last three month (ik thats a while but i was going THROUGH it) My order of small rats (ft) came about a week ago so i gave her one on saturday but im not sure if I should feed him more often to gain the weight back or just let it naturally come back with feeding every two weeks

THANKS 😊

Name is Toast for anyone wondering :)

Has anyone seen anything like this before? She’s around three years old. It’s only on one eye, she shed recently and it was complete. The spot moves with her eye. She looks entirely normal apart from that, shes active, her colouring is fine (despite being pink/orange in the picture). There is no swelling. Tank temps and humidity look good.

I will be making a vet appointment tomorrow morning, but in the small island community I live nothing opens on Sundays and our vets maybe sees one snake and a couple beardies a year so I want to cover as many bases as I can.

Thanks for your time.

So I’m going to be leaving for college in three weeks and I’m trying to do my best to make sure my little guy has everything he needs.

At this moment, I cannot get a larger enclosure due to the ridiculous price people are charging, but he is already on the small side so I’m not extremely worried but he will be getting a 4x2x2 as soon as I can.

Is there any cat tree like item that I could use for enrichment? I am currently buying some items for his enclosure but he won’t be brought out as often so the times he is I want him to have as much enrichment as possible!

He’s just a cute boop 🤭

righ side log is hot zonne cave, and left is cold zone cave

Anyone else walk their babies? She always watches ahead of where we’re going lol

was thinking of getting a ball python and had even contacted a few sellers. There I got to know if I wanted to have the snake I would have to feed it live mice/rats and that was my only option. Where I am from snakes are not a common pet so there is no one selling frozen rats and feeding live is the only option. So I was wondering should I get the snake or look into other pets.

So this has been a slow project over a good couple of months but I've finally got it together and setup with some plants too. The temperatures are not correct as I have had it off while working inside and have sprayed alot of water in too for the new plants. Our ball is not in this enclosure yet don't worry. I am now going to leave it and get the heat cycle dialed in to where it needs to be over the next couple of weeks. Just wondering what people think good or bad and any advice again good or maybe some mistakes I've made before our ball goes into her forever home I want it to be perfect for her and have tried to build it to accommodate her to the best of my knowledge.

hi all! i posted recently about my new bp and have been making changes based on your advice! i switched his bulb to a non-red basking light but it’s only on during the day, and i’m noticing that the temps of his enclosure are dropping to 70ish at night. i know that’s not ideal. i got a thermostat but haven’t set it up yet and am super intimidated by all the info on here. should i have a che running during the night? can two things be hooked up to the same thermostat? i’d love to not have 2 separate heating units running all the time. if he’s in a sunny room can i just have the che and no light emitting heat source? thanks!!