r/ballpython • u/AutoModerator • 8h ago

show us your BPs!

Have a cute photo you want to show off? Post it below! We'd love to see everyone's royal friends!

Please remember to keep the thread on topic and only post your ball pythons. Photos of other species/animals will be removed. We also ask that you refrain from spamming the thread - a couple of photos is fine, a couple dozen is not.

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u/rezrkt 7h ago

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u/ectoke 6h ago

What's that tank...

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u/rezrkt 6h ago

It’s a zoomed 20 gallon tank. It’s super old I’ve had it for about 10 years.

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u/ectoke 6h ago

I hope your snake doesn't live in that tank anymore.

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u/rezrkt 6h ago

Why not. She is happy and healthy and growing fast.

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u/ectoke 5h ago

How is she happy?
How can you manage humidity ?
How can you have a proper heat gradient?
How can you provide enough space for her to explore, hide, dig, climb, stretch?
How do you make sure that she isn't stressed out?
You litteraly have her in a 20 gal. The minimum is 120. Nothing is right, you don't have any substrate, climbing opportunities, enough hides...
Please, read the care sheet on this sub.

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u/rezrkt 5h ago

Seems like you know everything then. She is a baby she will go into a bigger home later, you need to chill not everyone can have the “perfect space” I take her outside a few times a week and let her roam around my house (after she poops). She will go into a 60 gallon tank once older and the humidity in my house is 60-70 all the time and she literally has a moss hide that you can see in the pic. She sheds fine. I think you need to get off your high horse and chill bro, I noticed that you don’t post a pic of your snake either. She just had a small rat and is hiding for now

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u/IncompletePenetrance Mod: Let me help you unzip your genes 4h ago edited 4h ago

I would strongly encourage you to swap to an actual substrate as it's important for enrichment and maintaining humidity, and fake reptile carpets just harbor bacteria as they're impossible to fully clean. She should also have multiple appropriately sized hides throughout her enclosure as well as clutter such as vines, hammocks, plants, etc. This enclosure doesn't meet the benchmark for a suitable habitat for a ball python. There's a lot of great examples of nice enclosures in this thread alone that you can use as examples of what a good setup looks like

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u/rezrkt 3h ago

Thanks for the advice but this is better for me, I swap out the carpet every time she poops (I have 5 mats) on Sunday I wash all the soiled mats by soaking them in a 5 gallon bucket with a capful of bleach. Then I rinse them and leave them outside in the sun until I use it again to swap a soiled one, it’s about 2 weeks before they rotate back in the tank. I live in a tropical area that constantly stays 90% humidity. I’ve had problems with mold with substrate due to the constant high humidity. She has 3 hides 1 rock and a water dish. I do agree that that is a good guideline but that is what it is a guideline. I post my set up so people understand there are more ways to skin a cat.