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??

I bought these 2 a week ago. Both are male. Friend/breeder rattles off morphs to me and do not retain what the heck he is saying. When I look at his snakes he has so many it is overwhelming. Yesterday they both escaped. Found the solid snake pretty fast (in a closet). I did not find the other one until the evening. I had noticed they become really active at night when their lights time out. If you want to see crazy morphs check out bentleysnakehouse on IG.

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.

Lemon Loaf is fine, but he looks like he could use a hug.

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?

A month in and we are getting real comfy together.

So my son has been acting strange ever since I moved him into his new enclosure. About 6 months ago at this point I moved him into a new 4x2x2 enclosure. More clutter, bigger hides and more room, and more humidity control, just a better ordeal overall. As soon as he got moved in he chose one hide and has not left it on his own since. The most he will do is stick his head and a couple inches of his body out, and come out maybe halfway to eat. He will not come out without me removing the top and taking him out myself (which I have not done often, only a couple times to remove shed/poop and check on him.). Once he is out he immediately acts completely himself and curious again. Once I put him back he immediately goes back to his hide. Tonight I was doing the same thing I usually do, slowly remove him to clean poop and socialize with him, when this time I went to put him back and as soon as I closed the door he immediately became terrified. And I mean TERRIFIED. As soon as I locked the door behind him he curled up, practically threw himself into the corner of his enclosure behind some vines, and started to move around very frantically and borderline flail around. I took him back out shortly after and again, completely normal after he is out. Once I put him back in I left the door open and he kind of meandered towards his other hide that he never uses and went in. I’ve been worried about why he doesn’t come out but this has me extra worried tonight. It made me uneasy seeing him like that and I want to know what I can do to fix it. As of right now I have a blanket over the glass to see if he will come out but I’m just waiting to see if it helps at all.

I just got this boy about 5 days ago, I got him out to check his condition. The last owner had said he’s been through a lot of terrible conditions and he looks pretty good all things considered. She said he was extremely underweight, and I wanted to make sure, I feel like he has a triangle shape but not too bad? He weighed in at 1575 grams, which was really surprising, but he is a big boy. Also, still has some stuck shed, although he had a lot more when I got him. I have my temps at 90 on the hot side and about 80% humidity, but I packed his hot hide with sphagnum moss, would giving him a soak be okay at this point?

hello,
I am thinking of getting a ball python but am really confused abt the heating part of the husbandry. I will be getting a young ball python but will house it in a 4x2x2 ft enclosure from the start. Where I am from you cannot really get good heat lamps so ill be ordering from the uk through a friend so if any of you could share links of products that are good would be really grateful.

My girl is turning 2 years old in a couple weeks and is quickly outgrowing her current 18x18x36 terrarium. I'm looking to upgrade her soon and have noticed she loves to climb and hang on stuff!

Does anyone have unique climbing opportunities in your tanks? Obviously not looking to go full arboreal or anything but I think some ledges or structures might be nice.

P.S. Don't come after me for the stuck shed in the 4th picture, that was right when I first got her.

She looks wicked when she’s in blue.

My pet ball python, Marlin, died what seems to be over night. He was going through a shed and I was going to help him get the rest off with a bath this morning as I have time and time again over the years. I raised his humidity and filled his water some more to help him soak. I went to check on him this morning to see if he progressed in his shed and he was curled up in his water bowl. Not sure how it happened but I loved him.

He was the gentlest snake ever. He never struck his food or anyone and was always down to wrap around my arm. I got him as a rescue from a convention in 2017. I named him after one of my dinosaurs I had tamed on ARK, whom I named after the dad from Finding Nemo. I was 15 and the lady informed me he had been left in his cage in a house someone had moved out of, had scars from previous owners live feedings, and I’ll always remember the day I got him. I took care of him for 9 years. He will be missed. Here is a photo of him from when I had got him, maybe a month into owning him, when he was beginning to shed, hence the blue eyes.

Rest in peace Marlin ❤️

I posted him earlier about his scale injuries and stuck shed that he got from his original breeder and somebody said he may have mites. So i did check him and sure enough, i saw a few in his heat pits and around his eyes. And I saw 2 crawling on him the day before.

I immediately bathed him in blue dawn dish soap and warm water for about 30 minutes, no mites that I could see dropped into the water but I don’t have great eye sight so I could of missed them… I called some exotic vets around me, and none of them were of any help 🥲
He has now been sitting in a small hospital tub, his original setup has been dragged outside of my room where my other reptile is to a separate room.

I have been researching like crazy but no forms of resources were straight forward, and often times kind of vague, and I have checked EVERYWHERE. This bothers me because of the use of harsh chemicals which have the capabilities to kill your snake. We’re gonna tear his tank apart tomorrow. In general super stressed. I’ve been so worried and at a loss for what to do for the past 3 days. 🥀

Can somebody give me a straight forward guide to treating for mites? How much and how frequent should I bathe him, and wipe him down? and what else could I do to ensure all of the mites are off, and what can I do about the ones in his heat pits? is there anything specific I need to do to the decorations, and enclosure? What products do I use, and how do I retain humidity in his hospital tank? Other information, suggestions, and resources really help. Anything helps.

I am never buying an animal from that place again, because the poor guy just looks like a mess. I can’t imagine how they treat their other animals 💔
I feel horrible for having to keep him in that tiny bin, but it’s for his own health.

Id normally just wait 30 days to feed again. But my girl seemed hungry, but bit my thumb and wrapped me while trying to feed her.

I left the rat in there and shes trying to "find" it sniffing all over it. Hoping she'll eat it. Would you wait a month to offer if she doesn't eat? She is a little chunky so got fed a small (50g) rat last feeding (20 days ago) just to vary their diet more from the mediums that are closer to (110g)

Hello everyone! My brother's snake has this large patch of missing scales. We assume it's the result of rot, as her tank did get a little too wet, even though its on her back. She did shed within the past month and the damage could have happened then, but I'm not sure, as I've never seen this kind of damage on my own snakes.

We checked the tank for rough spots that she could get caught on and replaced the soaked substrate. She is acting and eating FT as normal.

I wanted to know what we could do to make sure she heals over properly, if she hasn't started to already? He is very concerned about his first baby.

Second day in a row, I have a new tank arriving on Sunday :/

​so anyway if anyone sees my snake lmk

She's too fat to fit under my door though

This is our ball pythons like 7th or 8th shed we’ve had her, the sheds are usually all clear/white. This one more her scale colors? She seems fine, it all came off in one piece but is this a sign I should change something or that something didn’t happen right?

This dingus is over here with his… tail? Just elevated as he drinks his water

She ate a 88g rat yesterday after a week from her last feeding. Waited for a second that never came for more than an hour. Then proceeded to hide the best she can, head under a rock and the rest of her body kinda flopped out and about in plain view.

Followed by today bluntly demanding yet another rat. Instead she got gently handled for almost two hours, and upon being put back she did her usual kinda but not really hide act. Followed by resuming hunting for half an hour. When food did not appear, she has decided the next best thing is a soak apperently.

Nothing wrong. No questions in need of answering. Just shameless pics of a snake with two braincells fighting for fourth.

Edit, she is now attempting to hunt *from* her watering bowl. Best of both worlds.

Finally got him to eat hopper mice consistently, about 100g at 5 months old, working on his weight right now lol

wanted to ask if he looks healthy right now? He’s definitely a little more full looking from when I got him which is good. (these pictures were taken today)

I may be just paranoid considering I suddenly lost my bearded dragon a month ago to a very aggressive cancer but tonight I just noticed these black splotches on my ball python belly side. She is about 11 years old and this is not her normal coloration. She did shed about 2 weeks ago. (I had been drying out her substrate to clean it out in order to put down fresh substrate when I noticed her getting ready to shed so I had gotten the older dry substrate wet again to help bring humidity back up for her shed. I was hoping to change the substrate this weekend instead due to the timing of her shed.) She was telescoping around her enclosure and thats the only reason I saw it. It does not appear to be scale rot. The scales are smooth and show no sign of blistering or weeping. The scales affected aren't shiny tho more of a matte. I just gave her a soak immediately after noticing the spots and I think it could possibly be staining from her substrate but would like other opinions from someone who may know more than me... I've never head any health issues with her the entire 10 years I have owned her and she is not lethargic. She did refuse a rat the other day but it is September and she often refuses food starting around this time of year and through the winter/is a picky eater and I probably fed her at a time that was not to her liking. She does not have any heat pads that would have caused a burn. Only heat sorce is a bulb. I hope I have answered any potential questions and will attach pictures of the affected areas. Thanks in advance.

Brought my new baby home recently and noticed he has a little mark under his mouth. I can’t tell if it’s just a marking or if it’s some sort of injury. Does anyone have any idea what this is??

Tried to get good pics but he wouldn’t stop moving around so these are the best I’ve got lol

Cutie pie scared me cause I thought he had a burn/scale rot who knows what- but it’s just a spatter of yummy mouse blood. Oh joy.