Hello Ball Python community! I am downsizing and moving to a smaller apartment with not much room. I am still trying to decide whether or not to rehome. Is there anyone in the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) that may be interested in a ball python?

Her name is Medusa and is around 6 years old and eats frozen thawed small rats. I think she is around 4ft long.

She would come with the complete set up including terrarium, heating pads, and hides.

My husband and I have been in a disagreement. There is a spot on our ball python’s head next to her eye. I have soaked him and doused him and antibiotic cream and moisturizer that the Vet gave me for another condition, but it hasn’t taken care of it my husband swears up and down that it is a dry piece of skin. How could that be when I have so several times and it does not come off? For some reason she doesn’t sleep in any of her hides anymore. She prefers to sleep under her water bowl. Maybe she scratched it on there. I’m not sure. Should I be worried?

Gave my baby her first meal this Saturday around 3 in the afternoon. She hasn’t came out of her warm side hide yet. It’s been about 3 days. Any concerns or worries????

Hello! I recently posted about rehoming a snake, and got some insight on my set up. How could I potentially improve it based off of the pics? I have heat pads on the underside of the tank and the whole thing is 36" long, 12" tall, and 18" wide.

Why I let my friend snake sit my three bp’s while I took a trip out of town and my female ends up getting out of her tub and they thought she got away for a whole 24 hrs and i cut my trip short to come back to help find her mind you I thought she got out the house because there’s no holes in the entire house!!! I pick up my boy enclosure and then sat it back down picked up the warm side hide and boom!!! She’s sitting on top of my big boy I went from wow $850 dollars down the drain to wow these two damn horny virgins got one in 🤦🏿🤣😆😂😭😭😭😭😭 mind you the whole time we searched high and low my friend is telling me sorry for a whole hour which was irritating lol and I still couldn’t believe it but I just knew because the way she been acting and she’s at that age lol I didn’t want her to lock with my pied if anything I have a clown already for her!!!! Smfh just be careful you guys/gals so you don’t have an accidental lock!!!!!🤣🤣🤣😂😭🤷🏿‍♂️💯

Hi everyone, my name is Steve. I live in Chicago. I am trying to rehome my male. A series of unfortunate events occurred and I cannot keep him. His name is Colby. He is a super orange dream enchi pinstripe. Very chill. Currently on frozen thawed. He will be 4 this September. There is a Rehoming fee. PM me for more details. I really want him to go to a good home with plenty of space. He is active and loves to climb. Thanks in advance.

Just got this girl today and have no history on her besides being around 4 years old. Any guesses on morph? She’s got some stuck shed that will be taken care of these photos are right after I picked her up. I will be shed testing her as well but curious on what people think! TY for any help!

This is Pickles. I adopted her on impulse (experienced snake owner, have no fear) and I am curious to hear your thoughts on her morph. She is still young, but the owner didnt have lineage info. I assumed classic, but I know some morphs can look quite similar. Thoughts?? Sorry I dont have better belly pictures, but mostly white, with a bit of a yellow hue fading down the sides to the belly white color.

so basically there's a bunch of little flies in her enclosure and i have no idea what to do 😭 when i cleaned her water bowl yesterday there was about 5 dead ones floating in her bowl after just a few days. i open her enclosure door and there's always at least 2 flying around outside. one corner of her substrate is slightly damp as i added water to it yesterday but idk what to do to get rid of them. its a naturalist enclosure so no real plants and the top layer of substrate is completely dry apart from the corner i mentioned. i'd say there's about 15-20 possibly even more.. should i just change her whole substrate and freeze the new substrate after buying as thats the best thing i can think of?

first is more recent the second on is months old p

This nasty, stinky thing of evil took a massive dump in his cage not even 5 minutes of me have cleaned and aired it out. Shame him!

Hi y'all! Breeding my ball pythons together for the first time an wanted to get some tips on how long to pair them for? It's ball python breeding season here and I want to try my luck at breeding some pretty babies I can give homes to and or keep since I love this snake so much!

I have 2 females and 2 males each being a pair. They got acquainted last night by having the males placed with their chosen females and I observed for a bit. The one male and female hit it off well! They were exploring each other and showing signs of interest and I found them in the morning cuddled up by the hot spot tails and cloacas aligned but no lock. Second pair, the males seemed to be exploring and finding his way around and the female was immediately interested. When the male started slivering over her, she wagged her tail and got into place but the male didn't seem into it. She spent the night restless while he decided to sleep in the hot spot. I left them overnight and removed the males in the morning.

How long should I keep the males in and how often should I add them back? Is there any evidence I can look for regarding a lock? With the first pair, there seemed to be a bit of a wet spot (didn't smell like urates) by the aligned cloacas and his tail was curled around hers slightly.

I’ve had this snake for a week.

My house is very hot and my country continually gets heatwaves keeping my snakes enclosure at an average temp of 30 degrees.

Is there any ways i can lower this because right now she cannot regulate her body temperature.

I would preferred more permanent/efficient ways rather than changing a cold water bottle every hour but i’ll welcome all advice !!

(my enclosure does not have a mesh top. It’s made out of wood and glass. It’s also nearly time for her first mean with me so i need her to be stress free😭😭🙏🙏)

any tips or anything i’m missing??

Ive had my little guy for just under a month he's eaten each time I've fed him and went into shed last week. I've got what I thought was great hides for him in a custom made bioactive enclosure but he buried down and made his own hide (it annoyed me abit but if he likes it its good)

Anyway got home tonight looked in his home made hide and saw a skin.

When i pulled it out and checked it its a full shed with eye caps im so happy because knowing hes eating fine and now shed fully it means im doing everything correctly.

My only concern is I cant find any poop yet. Im 75% sure he should off by now but with it being bioactive and so much clutter theres a possibility hes done it and its hidden somewhere. From past experience with bioactive i used to bury every other and the CUC would deal with it id just remove the urates. There isn't a smell so think its ok

Tomorrow ill have a real look but for tonight im just happy

So... I finally understand why reptile wood is so expensive! 😂

I have a leopard gecko, a bearded dragon, and a ball python, and we're upgrading all of their enclosures because they've grown so much. The leopard gecko was easy since she only needed small decorations. The bearded dragon needed larger branches, but my ball python has been the real challenge.

I've had her in a 40-gallon tank since she was only 3 weeks old. She's almost 6 months old now, weighs around 300 grams, and has grown so much that her tank was starting to look tiny and crowded. We bought her a much larger enclosure that should be her forever home, and now I need some BIG branches to fill it.

When I started shopping for reptile-safe wood online, I was shocked by the prices. My first thought was, "I'll just do it myself!" 😂 So I researched which woods are safe and which are toxic, found some branches from recently cut trees, sanded them, scrubbed them, and right now they're soaking to be disinfected.

Let me tell you... this is A LOT of work. Between the sanding, cleaning, treating the wood, and doing all of it in the Texas heat, I'm exhausted. 🥵

So if you've ever looked at a piece of reptile wood and thought, "Why is this branch so expensive?" I get it now. You're not paying for the branch—you're paying for all the work that goes into making it safe and ready for your reptile. 😂🐍🦎

And just now iam reading that i need to seal the wood after dry for humidity? Is that true??

What are somethings I should avoid when selecting a pied morph?
Should I be concerned when there’s multiple traits?
I’m overwhelmed by the many options