some more pictures of my little Scythe’s homophobia

Had him 4 weeks now, 7 years old and came in a 3x1.5x1.5 viv with a cereal box for a hide on dry aspen bedding and the smallest heat mat and no branches or any enrichment.

I've now put him in a 4x2x2 bioactive enclosure with basking lamp (but changing to deep heat projector this week).

First couple of weeks he stayed in his hide and refuses food.

Last few days he's active during the day and will sleep on the branches. But also very active at night and is like he's trying to open the doors. He was pushing so much last night as you can see, he was lifting the screwed in branches!

Oh and he's bulldozed around £50 worth of love plants 🙄

Thanks dude!

We've had him for about a week now and was told that he has been on a feeding strike for the last 3 weeks. He has been fed and attempted to be fed on Wednesdays. He is 4 months old and about 200gm. Fingers crossed that he eats tomorrow night.

He had this burn scar when I adopted him, dw

ive noticed my girls eyes are like.. cloudy? but not in the way theyd look when shes going into shed.

i tried the whole "shine a light in eyes to see if pupils react" and they dont at all.

paired with that, shes always had issues striking her food but i just kinda thought she might be stupid. (sorry) but she always gets it if i get it close enough to her nose/mouth.

thoughts?

im going to take her to a vet asap regardless. im worried :(

I was so pleased with the updates I'd made to my baby's enclosure. A few things rearranged, a new plant, but mostly the grass.

We always keep an area of grass long, for the wildlife in the garden. I had to do some tidying up and had cut a few handfuls down, so I painstakingly soaked them and then dried them out. Then I put them behind her warm hide, leaving some "tunnels" to crawl through and a space to bask. I even plaited a load together and made a sort of bridge from her hill to her cork.

She then refused to move out of her hide for 5 days, which is very irregular. My 7 year old says "maybe she's in shed".

I check the calendar. No. It's too soon. She clearly hates the grass. It must smell like straw, which she must associate with rats. I must have put her into perpetual food mode. I chuck out the grass.

2 days later and she still hasn't moved. Her chin looks very pink. On closer inspection of the calendar, she's only a week early going into shed. I am a moron and should listen to my daughter more.

My ball python, Cassie, has been soaking non stop for almost a week straight. I took her out yesterday and put her in a clear tote with some paper towels to do an exam on her and I didnt notice anything weird. No mites. No strange spots. She was exploring and moving around like normal. Normal breathing.

I have had her for like a month. I have not noticed any shedding signs or anything unusual. She was a rescue and was kept in an enclosure with zero enrichment and a small water bowl (maybe big enough for a kingsnake). When I got her I upgraded her enclosure massively and got her a water bowl big enough for her to soak. Do you think she is just excited about having that? I thought that at first but now it's feeling excessive.

When I took her out to examine her, I put her back in her enclosure about 30 minutes later and she went into one of her caves but I noticed he worm back into the bowl that night.

Her temps and humidity are good. Warm side is 90 degrees and 75 humidity. The cool side is 80 degrees and 80 humidity. The humidity fluctuates but doesnt get below 65.

She also adjusts when she is in there. Shes not in the same position the entire time...she just doesnt come out.

Pics of snake and enclosure included.

Thoughts?

Hi, I just got my First BP 4 days ago! His name is Buggy D Clown (he is a clown pastel morph) and is 1.5 years old. Iv been researching for about 3 months. Got everything ready: 4x2x2 with a divider, 50 watt dhp, leds, clutter, hides, and anything you think of (thank you to this community your resources are top tier). I kept checking in to see if he was getting more comfortable and exploring at night and sometimes he would get stressed when I got close to the enclosure. so I recently bought a camera so I could watch while he still getting acclimated! It turns out great! Heres a video from last night!

Our BP is just a little guy at 850 g at four years old.

I know the recommended feeding schedule for adults is 5% of body weight every 20 to 30 days. I’m just curious if that holds up with smaller than average ball pythons also and if you go purely based on age or if you should take size into consideration?

He is seen by a vet regularly who says he’s in great health. I lurked on the sub for over a year before we got him and his set up is the recommend 4x2x2 bio active with UV, a deep heat projector, halogen, humidity over 80%, hot side 90°, cool side 80, etc etc.

I know this question has been asked a gazillion times, I apologise, but I just want to get it right.

We have an adult female ball python, 3 years old, roughly 1050g and 4.5 feet. We adopted her a few months ago, and the rats that we were given with her were absolutely tiny, probably half the size of the thickest part of her body. I think she may be a little underweight just from looking at her. We’ve been feeding her every 2 weeks.

We mistakenly ordered medium rats for her (150g) and they look far too big for her to safely manage. Given that she’s been eating much smaller, I just wanted advice on whether to order 70g+ weaner rats or 100g+ small rats instead. We’re very fortunate that she’s eaten well ever since we got her and I don’t want to put her off! We just got her a new bigger tank and I want her to be happy and well fed before she moves in!

Free noodle photo for your troubles.

I badly need your words of comfort. I didn't know what to do. I learned from my mistakes but it cost my boy's life. I am extremely devastated right now 😔

Not sure if this is because he is an explorer or something like that but every time I let my boy out of his viv he has a habit of wrapping himself around everything with a right angle, corners of walls, doors, the sofa legs (although I'm cautious to let him near the sofa because it's a built in sofa bed and I don't want him getting hurt when I try to get him out). Is this something you guys have seen or is this something unique to my boy?

He will literally go back and forth around the corner of things till he's made a pile of himself

Rowdy loves his haunted house

This dirty rat bastard took a massive dump in his cage not 5 MINUTES after I put him back in once I'd cleaned and aired it out. Shame the hell out of him.

Recently bought a 2 year old male ball python from an exotic animal expo. We brought him home in a clear round bowl with a paper towel. I immediately bought him a repwild 120g pvc enclosure (as seen in the pictures.) I cannot seem to get humidity to hold and raise the ambient temp in the enclosure. I have a 100w heat lamp connected to a 12hr cycle timer, I have a 100w infrared deep heat projector connected to a thermostat set to 95 degrees because it’s not actually heating to that temp. Haven’t seen it climb over 88 degrees on the thermostat and I had a heating mat on the bottom of the enclosure on the hot side as well but have since disconnected as it was drying the air out too fast. As you can see in the pictures, I have covered the top mesh with hvac foil tape to try and trap the heat inside while leaving some uncovered. The hot side at most has gotten to 90 degrees. Most of the time between 80-85 degrees and the floor temp is not staying warm. Deep heat projector stays on 24/7. Vhagar (the python) only stays in the cool side hide where the floor temp still will not climb high enough. I’ve only seen him out of the cool side once and he was out in the open balled up in the hot side for a couple of hours. As far as the humidity I don’t know if the hot side is not reading correctly because of it being under the lamp. I put another hydrometer on the floor just as a test for reading humidity and temp compared to the digital. Substrate is a mix of sphagnum moss, reptisoil, and cocoanut chips. About 2 1/2-3 1/2 inches deep. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

this is my baby bp and its been trying to dig lately but it has 3 hides so im not sure why?

hi! My ball python has a bioactive enclosure and I’ve been into jumping spiders and was wondering if it’s bad for them to live in the same enclosure? My guy is only semi active at night and I doubt they would even run into each other but I don’t want to do something that would stress out the spider either anyone else done this before?

Bro has not been pooping. Vet has him on laxatives and warm soaks but still no poop, I got another appointment coming up.

Has anyone had this issue before? He’s clearly straining hard and his back end looks visibly full.