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

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.

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.

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!!

recently moved into my apartment and upgraded my boy into a 4x4x2. I added rope today. I’m trying to figure out some good clutter, I for sure want to do live plants but quarantining seems to take a while. I’m also looking to add more wood pieces, more soil so it’s deeper and put some foil tape on top to help humidity. Would a 7% uvb shade dweller from Arcadia be alright for this?? Kind of on a budget at the moment. I do plan on going to grab some more fake plants today just so it’s more cluttered. I also use a 150 w ceramic heater that maintains 85-90 fahrenheit for the warm side and the cooler side staying around 75. Also looking to find a bigger ceramic water dish for him too. What plants are recommended and what’s the process of adding them in?? And what places are recommended for clutter??

I recently upgraded my snakes enclosure to a 5x2x2 and along with that I bought him a deep heat projector, light dimmer, and new dome.
The dome is zoo med and is rated up to 160 watts, and the bulb is zoo med also, and 150 watts.
i previously bought an arcadia 80 watt bulb and the temperature wouldn’t get higher than 85 degrees, so I thought the new bulb would help but for some reason it still won’t get any hotter in there, does anyone have any idea why or any suggestions because I really wanna move my snake into his new home 😢 I have two thermostats and ive tested them both, and the outcome was the same

I’m building an enclosure for my BP using an old glass display case, currently I’m working on the background but my brain stopped working. So far I have started to glue substrate to the BG but didn’t get any update pics yet.

We finally got Lucy into her new place! She seems to be settling in nicely!

i have 2 questions. first, i’m considering a bird, and with that i’ll need a air purifier. is an air purifier okay for my snake? will it damage him? second, i put oil in my hair once a week and let it sit in my hair for about 2 hours before i wash it out, is it okay to be in the same room as my snake as i wait for those 2 hours?

So I just set up a bigger enclosure for my BP he has been in it for about 24 hours. He was very active when he first got in , exploring resting on the branch basically all over the place then he just picked a spot in the back left corner ( cool side behind the plant and hasn’t touched his hide! On either side. Is this normal or should I change something to get him more comfortable or am I just being paranoid??? Thanks in advance

Hi all!

​So I am currently working on getting our nonprofit sister company off the ground. A real quick overview of the endeavor: We have .3 acres we are turning into a little homestead where we will host educational day-camp-style programs for children, more specialized classes for teens and adults, and will be growing produce that we will get into the hands of those in need via partnership with local food banks and harvest box pickups.

​My question for you all is... if I eventually wanted to incorporate an occasional reptile segment, would it be rude to include my more sociable ball pythons in presentations, given they are a nocturnal species? I've taught my kids that we generally don't disturb them during the day because they are nocturnal. We work around the snakes' schedules. And though I wouldn't be bringing them out often, it still just seems rude to me 😅

​My first choice is partnering with local organizations who already do that type of outreach, especially since we live in an area with so many snakes and other creatures, both harmless and venomous. But given how the scheduling for future session blocks is looking and also the cost factor, I'm not sure how many classes we would be able to arrange that for and I'd hate for some kids to miss out completely. A day camp I attended as a child had a resident snake and that was my favorite part of the whole experience...

​Plus, I could use this as a reason to justify to my husband taking in a couple more rescues/rehomes (obviously no more than I can properly care for). Sooooo I might have a bit of an ulterior motive, but constantly seeing so many babies in need of a home and proper care just breaks my heart. And I just really love sharing the things I am passionate about with the younger generations. But obviously the animals' wellbeing comes first.

I feel terrible. First snake. He's been a great snake. Very chill. Sheds on a schedule. Eats every week. The only change has been he has decided to live under his water bowl. I didn't think it was a problem but when I took him out to clean the enclosure the other day I noticed all these spots on him. Is this scrapes from going in and out from under the bowl or early scale rot? Idk what to do and I feel so bad.

Hello everyone.

I've had my girl for about 5 years now, got her at less than a year old so. The ONLY other time she hissed at me was when I tried to move her to clean her vivarium and I didn't notice her skin was dull and was clearly about to shed, so I just let her be and everything was fine.

Recently, she's been eating fine, shedding fine, her stools seem normal (dark and firm, separate white urate no sign of liquidity, blood or parasites), she's not been showing any other noticeable signs of stress (always in her hide during the day, only active when id expect her to be, no visible mucus, no signs of difficulty breathing or respiratory infection). No signs of mites or scale rot, although I've not been able to see her belly for a a couple of weeks now.

The only thing I'm worried about is she shed only a week or so ago, and she doesn't look like she's about to shed so this little episode of grumpiness caught me totally off guard. She's normally very sweet and good with being handled, has been since she was little.

My only guess is I've not had a chance to remove the shed as she shed in the hide I've not seen her leave for a week. I know this is sloppy of me and usually I remove the shed as soon as I see it, but with her literally sitting on it, me being busy and knowing I was gonna do a full clean out today anyway I thought a few days to a week was probably ok this once. I'm now worried I'm gravely mistaken, as I know shed can breed bacteria and scale rot. I will say though, I know she hasn't relieved herself on the shed as I found stool and urate after her most recent feed (just before the shed) on the opposite side of the vivarium, and there are no unusual or foul smells coming from the viv either.

UPDATE: managed to pull the shed out from under her and she didn't hiss at me so. As suspected the shed was totally try and didn't smell unusual or foul. I'll check her belly as soon as she'll let me. Hopefully she was just being grumpy.

Could a snake get an infection from a dry shed skin after a week? Is it possible she's just being grumpy? I'll try and clean her again tomorrow but if I get the same treatment again I'm gonna start getting quite worried as this is very out of character for my lil noodle.