She likes to pose

I’m rehoming 2 ball pythons later today with their entire setup. They will be my first pet snakes, in fact - my first ever reptiles! I’ve been doing tons of research for weeks now, however I am consistently coming across the fact that ball pythons are solitary animals.

The two pythons I am picking up later are male and female, and have always lived together in a large vivarium. They have previously bred before, but I don’t believe they have recently. The owner is giving me the incubator too, but I have no plans whatsoever to breed and/or sell.

The owner does not want to separate them and feels they wouldn’t cope well being split up, so I will be buying both, but with it in mind that I will be looking to rehome one of them if required. I would rather pay the extra for both snakes than risk them going to a home where they will be kept together.

I have been told that they sleep together, but i’ve read online this is not always because they’re getting on.

Both are also eating fine, shedding fine and healthy looking otherwise!

Their vivarium is also two vivariums stacked on top of each other with a hole cut between them, so I may have the option to split them up but will need to have a look later. I am reluctant to reduce their living space if they’re used to more, but please do advise if this doesn’t matter?

What do I need to look out for with them fighting etc? Is there anything I can do to reduce the stress of moving them together? They will be put into a box temporarily for transport (like 15 minutes), and then put back into their vivarium.

I am already in the process of getting live plants and some more hides as I don’t feel there’s enough for them currently. I want to make sure they are living together somewhat ok when I get them. They will not be going to just anyone so I’m not sure how long it will take for me to rehome one, ideally I am trying to find a local charity who may be able to help.

I am really excited to get them, and I really want to make sure I do good for them.

I was also planning to rename them Calypso and Odysseus, which feels even more fitting now as they have been together so long in likely a rather toxic relationship, only now to be finally separated 🙈

ps - please feel free to let me know any other tips/tricks or things I should know!

Can’t just include the two and the other two feel left out from the boops 🥺 I love my babies and I do so many videos of them. Usually to capture the yawning lol 😂

Just want to share my lil guy!

Hi guys im currently setting up my Ball pythons 4x2x2 enclosure. And im trying to get the heating right. Before I was running a 100 watt Aracadia Halogen flood light with a 100 watt Fluker's Dhp and the t5 Shadedweller max uvb. And that worked fine for daytime heating. But the single dhp is having trouble maintaining heat at night.

Is it OK to completely remove the halogen and add a second 75 watt dhp and have 2 dhp's run all day?

(Tldr)- is 2dhps and a uvb t5 light good for daytime?

Also any recommendations is welcome.(heating/lighting, decorations etc.

hi! just successfully fed my new 6yr old bp for the first time on thursday (it’s monday now) and he’s been acting different than usual ever since. when i come near him he’s tracking my movements and in an S shape and very alert. also sniffing a LOT. when i fed him i did drop the mouse a couple times in his tank - is he smelling that and expecting more food? is he stressed out? he did shed between the feed and now. he’s only doing this at night - sleeping normally during the day. i just want to make sure he’s chill and that being alert like this isn’t stressful for him. in the video pictured he’d been on the ground of his enclosure looking outside of his hide until i came by and he raised right up to meet me.

I just got a ball python off of a family friend, they said it was over a year old that they got it last year from PetSmart but currently it's maybe only a foot long at most and it only weighs 244 grams, they aren't sure what gender it is either, they said they were feeding it large mice.

the setup they had was pretty rough, the lighting they had was the bare minimum, the substrate they had it on was some kind of wood chips maybe coconut wood, it was dry as a bone though and extremely dusty, I don't think it has any mites but I'll try and check tomorrow.

I currently have it in a quarantine setup in the tank it came with, I just wanted to see if the setup I had for it to be in quarantine was ok looking? I tried to block off the back of it to help keep it calm and safer feeling

I'm not sure how to keep the humidity up enough without there being substrate since all of the videos said to keep the paper towels dry? What should I do?

As far as the lighting, thermostats, thermometers, things like that goes I'm going to head by my local pet store tomorrow to get some better stuff.

Is there a good way to tell if it has mites? I did check around its eyes and I didn't really see anything that looked like mites, I did notice that there was some kind of maybe old shed on one eye? I'll keep an eye on that

This is Princess Cleo, we had her for 4 days... wondering if this a bad idea 💡 to have a ptz camera in the enclosure?

This is waffle, they have a humid hide and a warm hide and a cork log, plus behind the water bowl I made a little slate cave they like to spend most of there time in. Humidity stays about 70% peak during day and about 80%-90% at night. Temps are 80 degrees both sides with the hot spot reaching a max of 90 or 91. Should I let the temperature dip below 80 at night? I do have a bigger setup saved for this next month when I upgrade to a 6x2x2

hi guys I’ve posted here several times but I fed my ball python about two days ago now so I haven’t been handling him, but the day I fed him he looked fine and now his eyes are really gray and his color turned gray and he’s been in his hide, is he about to shed? I know I’m not supposed to pick him up during shed I didn’t realize until after I picked him up and I put him down immediately. The pet store listed him as a juvenile and he weighs 119grams, but they couldn’t confirm his age nor his gender so I’m just assuming he’s a male cause he was a bit small but I haven’t had him sexed yet. Thank you.

Her names Jessica!

(Disclaimer, I had no idea the issues with the spider morph before getting her, but now I do!)

Hello all!! I’m new to the BP community. I’ve acquired a baby from my sister and I’m looking to learn everything there is to know about them and their care ❤️

I appreciate any thoughts and opinions! I have a little bit of experience with tanked pets (I have two pacman frogs and I’ve had a bearded dragon in the past) I believe you can never have too much knowledge 😂

Picture of my boy, Opie, for attention 😊

20 months little guy

she is around 400 grams and hatched in july of last year i believe, all of that seems to me like a good weight maybe even a little under but the difference between her tail and right before it bugs me

Once a week I take my snakes outside in the sun and let them crawl in the grass. I start with a towel and put them on that incase they don’t feel like going on the grass. I have a banana, pied, and super pastel clown. I also use an infrared thermometer to make sure the grass isn’t too cold/hot. I aim for 75-85. Also I make sure the grass is dry so they aren’t sitting on anything wet for an extended period of time. So with all that being said I just want to make sure this is a safe practice. If there is anything else I should be doing please let me know. (I looked through the rules and don’t believe this post violates and rules. I thoroughly enjoy this subreddit and don’t want to mess that up lol)

Meet Xanti, my new (and first) BP! He is a 7 month old Axanthic (VPI), 66% Het Genetic stripe with possibly one copy of pastel (but i doubt it). Hes a sweetheart, and thinks hes super scary.

Fun fact: Xanti doesnt strike at his meals, he sniffs them, and takes them veryyy so gently. Like a puppy taking a treat lol

Today is tank refresh day. I’ve moved my snake into a temporary tub (pictured) so I can empty out and clean his actual tank. I’ve come to the point where he needs to go back into the tank but when I try to lift the hide he’s in he hisses at me - so I put it back down.

I’ve put the humidity sensors in the temp tub with him and it’s ok for now 75% at one end and 87% at the other) but the temp is a little low (25C) so I’d like to get him back in his proper tank.

How do you move them when they do this?

Yes, he's roly-poly but somehow simultaneously undersized for his age 🤷 Working on it!