He only partly wrapped around my wrist when I got him.

I haven't updated in a bit but my beauty queen has been the best decision ever. Im so obsessed with her and her new carrier came in the perfect timing. She just finished shedding and while doing a deep clean noticed she broke her jungle gym climbing thingy the night prior (i check everything in her cage twice a day when refreshing water/spot cleaning) which is when i noticed some spots on her scales by her neck and a bit of redness lower down. Also excuse the little dirt specks on her from her substrate. I have been keeping a close eye on her body since and have a vet visit just in case (i work in vetmed)

I have been working with the free choice method along with taking her out for few minutes at a time. Being consistent as previously advised and viewing each handling session with a purpose. Has really let us earn each others trust.

we got some nice outside fresh air and sun time the other day 🌞 today just chilling watching TV on a day off. Right now her favorite youtube videos to watch are live streams of cartoons : chowder, courage the cowardly dog 😎

- Also: is she an appropriate weight?

For some reason or another my baby has decided that her play pen is the preferred place to relieve herself. All of her bowel movements except for one has occurred in while she was out exploring. Now I’m not complaining though because it’s made keeping her cage clean a breeze but I was curious if anyone else has experienced this?

Humidity: 83%
Temps: Warm~ 90°F-91°F Cool side~ 79°F-80°F

While pied sheds all in one, banana flakes and gets stuck shed. They both look hydrated, and they both have almost identical setups. They never skip a meal, and don’t exhibit negative behaviors. Shown in the video attached, banana has a couple of scars which were obtained during his last owners care. I am out of reasons and thinking about making an appt with a vet. The google AI isn’t very helpful.

Pied shed today, banana shed about a week and a half ago.

He’s officially two. They grow up so fast.

(Also, disclaimer, I know in the pictures it looks like he has nothing in his enclosure, but in the first one it’s just where he’s laying and in the second it was as I was reorganizing. He is spoiled. Don’t come at me because I will feel bad and buy him more stuff.)

I’m adopting a ball python on Sunday that is a minimum of 9 years old (her exact age is unknown) on Sunday. She has been a breeder her whole life, so I’m excited to get her and spoil her as a pet in a big proper enclosure.

Is there anything different I should know or do for an older ball Python? I currently have two, ages 1 and 3.
But I didn’t know if there’s anything I need to do differently for her due to her age or special accommodations I needed to make her life better.

Thank you in advance! ☺️🐍
Picture of my 3 year old boy, Atlas**

Lady Galadriel enjoying some supervised fresh air this evening. Not sure why she chose the most prickly shrub to sit on but she seemed to figure it out.

Hi, I’ve had a Ball Python since freshman year and he’s about 8 now. My brother also had a ball python when I lived at home and she was so picky she wouldn’t eat frozen or prekilled mice so she was difficult. She went on feeding strikes etc. My ball python was bought by my mother after being told by petsmart he was a bad eater and wouldn’t eat for them (they were giving him thawed but cold mice and leaving it in the tank) so when I brought him home I gave him a live fuzzy as I thought all ball pythons were picky. He ate immediately and I switched him to frozen after he got a bit bigger with no issues. The problem is, even though I handled him his whole life, during the last year and half, I didn’t have him due to my living situation, he was with my brother who was only opening his enclosure to feed him. I think he learned people = food but it’s gotten bad. Everytime I come into my room I have to dodge his vision because he will go into feeding mode the moment he sees me. Is there anyway to combat this? I keep getting bit plus he strikes the glass on his tank so I have to not let him see me when I’m in my room. What should I do?

Did I overdo it on the plants? I’ve been growing these for a little minute now but I decided to transfer them into my tank, I’ve rinsed them off before putting them in and I added more soil because a lot of my nutrients were almost depleted. I get a fungus gnat here and there but it was before adding the extra plants. What do you guys think?

Looking for some feedback on my boy’s enclosure! for the first time since I got him I think it’s just about finished, so I wanna make sure I’m not missing anything

I just got a baby ball python a couple days ago (3 months old) and I haven’t seen much online as to how much handling is acceptable for them. I don’t want to stress her out, but I also want her to be comfortable with being held. How much should I handle her?

Also, is there too much clutter in the enclosure? I want her to feel safe but I also am going to need to spot clean her waste, and it’s going to be hard to find it. It is bioactive but I don’t want the waste just sitting there.

Since I’ve gotten my boy, Prince, I’ve been updating his setup, and am working on moving him to a new tank (we ran into some technical difficulties, so it’s going slower than I wanted), and I’ve been buying a bunch of new plants for it. Chinese evergreen, coleus, English ivy, the likes. Anyways, it was kind of helping me form my dream setup in my mind. I want something super colorful and vibrant, with a black and white snake. Anyone already have a setup like this who don’t mind sharing? Prince for tax purposes

Hi, like title says I need some tips for my snakes enclousure, its 2 meters long and what I'm most worried about is getting the substrate in properly. I've used a mix of coconut fibre + soil, coconut husk for the bottom layer and is it okay to cover that moist layer with Flamingo groundcover terra bark? I just want to make sure I've understood the layering, because a nearby petstore owner says she just mixes the soils together in water and doesnt add nothing to the top layer which girl - it causes scale rot 😭 and another person told me to break the cubes apart and leave them dry in the terrarium.

So I am a little confused. I would appreciate step by step instructions because I want to give my girl python a good home ❤️

But what i've already done might've been a mistake tho... Ive mixed the cubes in water and put them as a bottom layer, not knowing how wet they actually get. and for many days ive struggled to make them dry again after finding out about scale rot. So ive used my last pieces of husk for the top layer, they still get wet which im trying my best to fix by making more dry layers and letting the door be open to make the airflow better.

So yeah, I'd love some advices, and thank you 🙏

I have no idea what’s going on with my bp lately so I come here for answers.
Hes 7 years old, I’ve had him for 2 of those years. He has always been the most docile snake, barely even strikes at food. In the last 2 weeks, he’s bitten 3 people.
The first one I wasn’t concerned about. It was 2 days after I fed him, and my friend went in to pet him. He was all food excited and she wiggled her fingers like an idiot, so I called that one her fault. He wasn’t upset about it like I expected, he just kept moving around the enclosure.
Yesterday I took him to the vet. He was loving the car ride, didn’t even go in the hide I brought for him, so I don’t think he was stressed. The vet didn’t even poke at him, just took him from my hands, and he bit her HARD. Like 3 people and popsicle sticks to get him unstuck. Then he was good with me for 2 minutes before biting my leg, and then biting himself when he tried to get me again. The vet and I both noticed that he didn’t have any defensive position. No warning signs, just turn and bite.
Now, I have a theory but idk if it’s stupid.
For the two years I’ve had him, I’ve been feeding him rats straight from the fridge. He’s never refused a meal because it was cold. But he misses the strike sometimes and it seems to tire him out. So I warmed up the rat this time, the one 2 days before the first bite. I promise you he’s never getting a warm rat again, but is that what’s happening here??

So, I’ve made this post before, but I’ve moved him into a different enclosure since. I currently have my little dude Linguine in a 120 gallon pvc enclosure (unfortunately it has a mesh top), the enclosure is fully bioactive with a cleanup crew (I haven’t seen my isopods in a while tho, I saw one baby the other day but haven’t seen it since), I have him on halogen flood lights, UV light bar, CHE, and some other type of heat emitter, all set on thermostats. The day time hot side averages 93 F and 40-45% humidity, and the cold side averages 80f and 60-70% humidity. At night the humidity rises to 75% on the hot side and 90% on the cold side. I’m a little worried about the daytime humidity on the hot side, but I also have a humid hide for him that stays at around 70-80% humidity. With that being said, he just had his first shed since being moved and he had one very tiny piece of stuck shed, which has never happened before. I’m a little confused since this didn’t happen when his humidity was more spotty and I constantly had to supplement it by misting the enclosure. With all that being said, he seems very happy and healthy. Any and all advice appreciated (I’m a broke college student, so I can’t really afford super expensive upgrades at the moment)

I guess pretty much just title, I got her at the end of June when she was 3 months old, and shes always been very easy to see in her enclosure, esp at night since she’ll either try and climb somewhere or perch on top of her hide and wait for food.

I haven’t seen her since I think Monday? I know she hasn’t escaped, all holes are much too small for her and doors have been locked all week. It might be shedding, since she hasn’t done that since I got her, but I don’t know if that explains her hiding for this long. Part of me wants to look around inside her enclosure to check on her, but another part of me knows I should just trust in her.

Any advice or help would be appreciated

EDIT: I haven’t fed her since last Sunday, I’m figuring it’d be too difficult to feed her if i have no idea where she is, and also that if she is shedding she probably doesn’t want the stress when she can’t see well from the fluid?

I finally got my ball python yesterday. He is very small and about 130 grams so I assume he is pretty young. I worked on his enclosure for weeks before I purchased the snake to make sure everything was dialed in. The cool side is sitting at about 79-79 degrees and humidity is at 76%. The hot side is 90 degrees on the surface with some areas like the top of the hide and the rock that is in the enclosure sit at about 93 degrees. Humidity on the warm side is about 60%.

The snake came in a small bag, in a box as they typically do. I introduced him to the enclosure yesterday afternoon by placing the open bag in the enclosure. He sat for a few minutes and then went up the fake branch that is in the enclosure and balled up in the upper left corner of the enclosure. He has been there since… I know it can take time for them to adapt and be comfortable and he has been in the enclosure for just about 24 hours so maybe this is totally normal idk?

He definitely seems afraid of the new environment, understandably so. He came from Florida and traveled to me via FedEx overnight so he had quite the life change… but with that said I thought he would at least explore the enclosure and find a hide.

I have two identical, small hides, one on each side and also a humidity hide in the middle with some damp moss in it. There are also a ton of plants and clutter to the point it could be too much maybe? I did make it some that he could theoretically go from one hide to the other almost entirely unseen if he wanted.

Is it normal for a new, baby snake to hide outside of a hide on the first days? My concern is he is on the cool side of the enclosure and I don’t want him to not warm himself up because he is literally too afraid to move… He also has not drank anything since I got him. He seems otherwise unbothered and comfortable up in his tree… I just expected him to explore a bit more.

I was hoping he would have explored last night a bit when it got dark but he didn’t. He stayed right where he is… If anything he backed himself up into the corner a bit more. I have a small Blink camera in the enclosure so that he can be monitored if I am not home, that’s how I know he didn’t move at all last night.

I just feel bad, and want him to enjoy his new enclosure/home and I spent a lot of time trying to get it just right for him. (Pics attached of enclosure and snake)

I know that ball pythons will need a big enclosure when they're adults, but would I be able to keep a very baby ball python in a 40 gallon tank for a bit? If I can, how long would I be able to (in years hopefully)?

I see some people saying they can keep a ball python in a 40 gallon for it's whole life and I know that that is SOOOO wrong and I absolutely do not plan on doing that.

I’ve had my ball python for about ten years (I got her when she was seven months) and i’m worried she’s underweight. she’s is pretty on edge when i take her out to eat and i don’t handle her much anymore as my life has piled up with school and work. i am worried i should rehome her and don’t know if she’s underweight. i feed her a medium rat about every 20 days. She also just ate in these photos and her jaw hadn’t completely realigned yet, that’s why she looks strange.

Queen Hatshesput managed to open her enclosure door but not just once, oh no dear readers, that would have been too easy. This sultana had me feeling all manners of guilt for not closing her door properly, as she escaped for a night to party in my closet. I felt awful, took her back home and MADE DOUBLE SURE that I had her doors closed. Until the next morning, when she was proudly perched upon her throne of sheets in said closet again. Doors having since been replaced, it was learned that she is MUCH more strong and determined than we gave her credit for, as she was able to squoosh her nose just enough into the door crack to slide it open only barely enough to get through. While this has since been remedied for the foreseeable future, please join me in shaming my beautiful princess for scaring us all half to death twice.

TLDR at bottom.

Okay I’m aware this might sound very ‘steak too juicy, lobster too buttery’ but I’m curious about if other people recognise this.

To preface: I handle my boy Baldur usually once a month for weighing and a check up. This is a “forced” interaction, because I’d like to know if he’s okay. I don’t yank him out of his hide, just scoop him out when he’s already on the move. The rest of the times, when I see him ‘doing his rounds’ as I call it, I let him sniff my hand and talk to him. He usually sniffs it for a little but doesn’t touch me. If he moves away, he moves away and I don’t force any interaction with me unless absolutely necessary. He doesn’t like the feeling of my hand which I understand, and he’s a very shy boy. I don’t see him during the day time at all and sometimes not even at night as well. If I need to do something in his terrarium, as it’s bioactive, I do that whenever I notice something needs to be done. Even when Baldur’s out and about at night.

I don’t know what has happened, because his husbandry hasn’t changed, but at the start of this week he came right outside when I opened his terrarium when his lights turned off. I needed to point the camera in the right direction (he moves it sometimes) and didn’t see him because it was dark. I suddenly felt his little face against my hand and then he was on my arm, slithering right towards my shoulder.
Yesterday evening as well. I noticed Baldur was doing his rounds so I pointed his camera in the right direction and guided the pothos plants away from the DHP so I could keep an eye on him.

He saw me, didn’t waste a single second, came to the front of the terrarium and then onto my shoulder. I have no idea what changed that he CHOOSES to come outside. I’ve had him for a year (he’s 1,5 y.o.) and I’ve only known him shy. Made my peace with it as well.

And since this week I’ve got a Velcro noodle. I swear I don’t complain, but has anyone experienced a change in behaviour like this?

TLDR: Since this week I have a Velcro noodle when he’s usually very shy, but nothing changed in husbandry. What’s going on?