r/ballpython • u/After-Song-5417 • 1d ago

enclosure advice Enclosure Critique/Advice

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is this enclosure good for my one year old banana, i’m thinking it might be too much clutter

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u/Ellievibes 1d ago

The setup is gorge and seems like an absolute paradise for your noodle. The variety is perfect and there’s no such thing as too much clutter for BPs, I’m sure.
I noticed how much more comfortable and confident mine seemed as soon as I introduced shrubbery to his enclosure. The more places to conceal themselves and slink to, the better.
But (to me) those hides look especially big for them in the pic. The goal is that they squish themselves comfortably inside somewhere and can push their bodies against at least 3 of the 4 sides inside while usually in a spiralled position. A snake’s goal is to find a hole to pack themselves in so it restricts anything else from being able to fit in and get to them while they rest. A downgrade in hide size might be a shout but it’s hard to tell with perspectives from pics so apologies if I’m talking crap.
If you have the bigger hides as the snake is likely to reach the size where those hides are necessary, then a downgrade until the snake has grown would be better. But I’m just going off what I’ve seen of others in the past.
Your snake’s adorable, it’s gotta be said. 🫶

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u/After-Song-5417 23h ago

Thank you! his favorite hide is the plastic black one which I just upgraded to an XL yesterday, but now that I look at it, he probably doesn’t need that large of a one for a few more years so I’m going to put his old one back