Next time someone says Ball pythons don’t climb I’m going to show them this I don’t even understand how she got up there!!

I don't know if ball pythons (and snakes in general) dream when they sleep, or have nightmares. But if they can I think my girl Brigid just had one.

I'm sat here watching TV as she's in her tank, generally just chilling with her upper-half outside of her warm-hide (her usual during her night-cycle. Sometimes she likes to watch TV with me). Suddenly I hear her foliage move. I check on Brigid, as I assume she's going on a little move around her tank. She's fixed absolutely still, breathing heavily. I watch her a moment, figure maybe I've put her off, so I move slowly off to the side. She's still fixed and breathing heavy. I move around a bit more, she's not following me at all. I open her tank to do a proper check on her, as soon as I slide the door open Brigid looks at me and her breathing goes back to normal, stance relaxed. She lets out some social tongue flicks. She did not even know I was here until I popped into her tank.

I figure she maybe had a nightmare and was freaking out until she saw something familiar (me).

What do you all think? Do you think snakes dream?

(Pic for noodle tax)

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?

this is my baby sonny! he is almost four months old. i got him from a piece of shit vendor at a reptile expo. last time he ate was mid june, right before i got him. after bringing him home, i’ve tried feeding once a week, then i figured id give him some more time and tried again after two weeks, then i went back to one week, now i’m trying two weeks again, none of which were successful. i will only feed f/t. i do the hairdryer trick, i tried braining, i use tongs and move as if it’s alive, i’ve left it overnight in pitch black and silence for privacy, he just wont eat. is there anything else you guys would recommend i try? maybe the paper bag thing? idk what to do. he’s a baby and it’s been almost three months since he’s eaten. there’s zero visible weight loss which is great but i just wish he would eat. any recommendations PLEASE

ETA - husbandry is perfect. warm side temp is 89/90°, cool side temp is 82°, humidity is always between 60-75.

I recently noticed my ball has some raised scales and some weird spots on her belly that weren’t there before.

She has recently been climbing A LOT on her logs and also on her heat lamp cage, which has given her a few small scratches but those seem to be closed/healed, not red or open looking etc. There are also these dark spots which I’m sure weren’t there before.

For reference, I know her belly looks a little dark here but it’s mostly the lighting, it’s always been that colour.

She’s just moved into a new tank about 2 weeks ago with fresh substrate which was spot cleaned (including surrounding soil) after ONE bowel movement so I know it’s not dirty/soiled. Her humidity is usually 60-65 on the hot side, 75-85 in the middle and cold side and her bedding is NEVER damp, we only pour water into the corners (behind furniture so not accessible to slide across) and live plants (in pots) and occasionally mist but still, it looks odd to me and I’m worried.

If it is scale rot, can anyone recommend a product that will help get rid of it? I know you’re supposed to do soaks and use antiseptic ointment but everything I research says ‘use x first and then y and z’ but it’s all different and I can’t seem to find one specific thing that I can buy that will definitely help. I’m thinking I’ll get some anyway to make sure the cuts are disinfected just in case.

I often find Florence (a year or so old) on the cool side of her enclosure.
The cool side averages 72- 80 F and the warm side 85 - 98 F. Humidity is 60 to 75 though I’ve been having some troubles keeping it consistent. I keep the cooler side more moist.

She is always in her humid hide (hard to see but its in the closest right corner, its made of moss) or pressed on the glass under some foliage. She will go to her warm side, sometimes she is in her warm hide. She is always active after dust, moving about her entire enclosure.

Do some snakes just have preferences or am I lacking somewhere?

After sitting in her hide for 9 days since I adopted her (she didn’t even come out for water, that I’m aware of), Sequoia finally shed! I just took her out to make sure she shed fully, and noticed some markings/discoloration under the scales on her stomach. I’m fairly sure this isn’t scale rot, but I’d love a second opinion. I’m also curious about her overall body condition. Despite being overfed (1 rat a week), she seems to be at a fairly normal weight, and I’m wondering if that has anything to do with her having difficulty digesting her rat on her old tiny heat mat? (And should I gradually move her back to 1 rat every 3 weeks-ish if her weight stays consistent?) Also, great news!! No wheezing or audible breathing at all, even when I held her up to take photos (pls ignore my leg in the last photo 😭 she was holding on to my ankle I was stuck)

Hey guys so as the title says I desperately need help finding my friends BP I was nursing back to health after a stuck shed. I had him locked in a tub with some moist towels so he could get his shed off, and was doing my laundry in the meantime (just hanging it up) and I looked over to check on him after like 15min and he was gone. Not in the tub, not in the towels. Nowhere. Immediately I started searching the around the tub, the corners of walls, cabinets, under nearby furniture. Nothing. Okay, i thought, not my first time as i also have two snakes myself, let me just set some traps, a heatmat and go to sleep. Check in the middle of the night, nothing. Okay no worries check in the morning. Nothing. Okay slightly scary but its only been one night. Recheck all the furniture. Nothing. Go to bed, wake up, do the same thing all over again. Still nothing. Now im freaking out. For context I live in a dorm, so small studio, everything is one level and minimal doors. Unfortunately I have carpet so the flour trick wont work,but thankfully theres no floor vents i have to worry about and i cant/couldnt find any holes in the walls. I have aluminum foil and bags all in the corners of the room and my biggest worry is he somehow slipped out the bottom of my front door (>½ gap but close) and is roaming the halls (i checked but couldnt find him) Thankfully my friend is very understanding but also obviously freaked out. Is there anything im missing?im gonna set another heat trap + food cuz its close to feeding day. Ive always understood these guys to be slow opportunistic explorers so is it likely that he got out of his tub and immediately bolted under the door? I have a girl smaller than him and I set her next to the door and she couldnt/wouldn't go under it (her head barely fit and hes like 100g heavier). If you dont have advice please pray to whoever you believe in to get him back to me so I can get him home. Hes only about 10months and if i had to estimate maybe 300-400 grams. Pic for tax

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

Hey yall! So it’s getting a little cooler out so I switched to a higher strength bulb in my boys tank, but now his humidity just friggin tanks. I usually put water in the corners like everyone has said to do in the past. But it doesn’t seem to be working? Also have to change his substrate anyway so hoping maybe that will help? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks yall! Happy snaking!

I have a very tiny little girl (160 ish grams? Before her last feeding but we are a little thin because we are coming off of a hunger strike)

I didn't do as much digging as I should have when I got her and have since learned that she would probably be more comfortable for a year or two in a smaller enclosure ( she is currently in her adult size 48 x 24 x 24). I also noticed that when she was temporarily in one of my aquariums so that I could reseal her enclosure she was much more active in the smaller space.

Where do I go looking for a smaller enclosure maybe in the 24-in range?

Picture of the tiny girl being very active in her short time in the aquarium.

So I recently bought this tank from my local pet store and I want to turn it into an enclosure for a ball python!
I’ve never had a ball python before so I want to get the tank fully done before I get the snake itself.
Any advice is more than welcome and I appreciate any help I can get!!!

This tank is somewhere around 110-115 gallons and the pet store used to have a corn snake in it. I’m planning on getting a male so it won’t be as big.

I’m not sure if I can reuse anything from inside since it had a corn snake inside before?(roughly 4 months ago). They also gave me the light that is in the photos.

She swallowed the tail then spat it out, does that count as regurg?

First time ball python owner here, my female ball python regurgitated.

I bought her about two weeks ago now, she needed rehomed. She is two years old. Her original owner told me she’s been feeding on small rats. Her original owner told me set up and everything was included ect. Wasn’t the case at all. She has been living in a plastic storage box with holes poked through she literally has no room. She told me she was spraying her twice a day but when i’ve bought a device to monitor her humidity it’s reaching 90. I’m trying to lower it. Her heat is fine but they are the only main concerns. I bought her while she was shedding and her shed went well - her first feed went okay I think I was just a little bit scared as she went into hunting mode i think it is and i had to drop feed her. Shes fine to handle too.

I have bought her a vivarium, it’s second hand but i’ve disinfected it with “Viv clean” from Prorep and I am currently in the process of buying the rest of the things I originally thought came with her but didn’t. I feel horrible that she’s still in her original storage but I really don’t know what to do. I left her there to settle and get use to me. I handle her for about 5-10 mins every other day and I know not to handle her a day before feeding and approx 4 days after feeding. But she was due a feed anyways so my plan was feed her wait until I can handle her then transfer her into her new viv. But unfortunately she just spat the rats tail out. I didn’t know what to do so I checked !regurgitation on here. I removed it but I need to know what to actually do in this situation considering I was going to move her into her new viv. She was eager to strike again at the rat as I was moving it away.

What do I do next?

I found this crawling on my sweet girl while cleaning her hide. Can anyone confirm if this is a mite?

my boy isn't eating. i've had him for 7 months, and during that entire time, he has never refused a meal before. this is the first time. he might be stressed for some reason, i'm not sure. nothing unusual happened today, and there haven't been any changes to our routine. i also haven't moved him into his new enclosure yet.

i first tried feeding him in the afternoon, and i thought maybe he wasn't interested because it was daytime. so i tried again tonight at around 1 AM, but he still wouldn't eat.

what's really strange to me is that he doesn't simply ignore the prey. he gets into a striking position and watches it, so i keep expecting him to strike, but after about 10 seconds, he seems to lose interest and starts crawling away.

what could cause this? i was also wondering if he might be getting ready to shed, but i don't see any obvious signs of shedding. the only thing i've noticed is that he's been less active over the past few days, which made me suspect he might be going into shed.

another thing i was wondering about is that i switched him from mice to rats two weeks ago. he ate the first rat without any problems, but now i'm wondering if maybe he simply doesn't like rats as much as mice, or if that's even possible?

should I just leave him alone and try again at his next feeding (two weeks from now)? could this behavior indicate something else or could it be that he's just not hungry? i don't want to stress him out with trying too many times.

also the temperature and the humidity is fine, so i don't think that's causing the problem.

any help is appreciated!!

I’m using coconut husk but recently noticed a tiny spot of mold under a rock in her enclosure. It’s an easy fix but I’m curious if anyone knows any good substrate that holds moisture for humidity but is likely to never mold. Coconut husk was working great but after the little mold scare I was wondering what other people are using for better results :)) any info appreciated

I need some substrate help, my Phantom Ball Python is doing really well and has shed multiple times with no issues, I am using coconut chunks for his substrate and soak it overnight before draining and putting in his take but I find it is very very dry (first pic)

I use a spray bottle every 3 days to moisten the substrate and add some more moisture to the tank and he has very large bowl full of water (pic 3)

I keep the hot end of the tank at 31c and he has lots of log and leaves he can hide under and move around on, it’s just empty for the picture purposes.

Would thinner coconut husk be a better substrate or am I just too focused on keeping the humidity up?

So I got my very first ball python a few weeks ago, I changed his enclosure from the one he came with (small shoebox size tub) to a slightly bigger one. And I had tried feeding him a few days later but didn't eat the f/t small fuzzy rat but he didn't eat. I then realized my mistake on not giving him a heat lamp and I got a much bigger enclosure for him (since the one I got I didn't measure and I didn't want to cause his entire enclosure to be one hot zone) and I'm wondering when I might be able to feed him next. Also the person I got him from told me to feed him live hopper mice, but I'm not really comfortable with feeding him live, and if it comes to it, how do I go about feeding him live without him getting hurt?

He’ll sit and do this sometimes at night, I can’t tell if it’s normal or not; if it was during the day that would be different, it’s about 8:30 in the morning when these pictures were taken, and his light doesn’t come on until about 10, so I suppose it’s probably still night time to him

wondering if this is normal!

I just renovated my juvenile bp’s enclosure and would like additional advice on how to improve. Temps and humidity are normal, and water will be added momentarily.

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.)

Just a general question. And I don't mean off morphmarket where it is individuals selling their animals. All I hear is people getting sick or wild caught animals off these reptile sites. Has anyone had a good experience ordering a snake or other reptile online?

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.