someone he didn't know dared to say hello to him

this has been the scariest experience of his life. horrified, traumatised, trying to hide under his own body.

everyone tell hunter he's a brave boy lol

(+ a photo of his normal shenanigans to show he is a very happy boy normally!!)

Very snake shaped 🐍

i'm looking into adopting a baby bp but i want to know the most ethical ways to do so that doesn't contribute to harmful breeding. i hear alot about morphmarket but i just can't accept that a website with over 10k listed bp's is a reliable source and that people there aren't just breeding them for colour. i don't have many options on fb groups or around locations near me so online recommendations are preferred, or even if there are ways to find reputable breeders that prioritize health and wellness of their snakes on morphmarket. i have all of the time in the world so even recommendations that would take longer to adopt are okay as long as the babies are safe and healthy

I hate the woodworking, i hate building the backround, i hate dealing with plants, and i hate spending lots of time and money. So why do i love building these things😂😅

He is very silly

Hi! I'm going to be getting a ball python in about a month when I'm done setting the enclosure up. I had one ten years ago who sadly passed away back then, and I decided to commit to another friend!

I'm still waiting on a underground warm hide to go under the basking rock, and waiting for the heat lamp and bulbs to come.

I won't be using a heating pad because my last was injured by one, so I wanted to do a basking rock instead.

This is a 75g tank, bedding is cypress, two cork hiding logs on the cool side(right), and some ghost wood for enrichment and decoration. I am also waiting for two more enrichment items to come.

I have a misting system in case spraying and the water dish isn't enough humidity, would that excessive?

Opinions, advice, critique welcome please!

Thanks!

Everyone please say hello to Butterscotch

Im getting a baby ball python in November itll be 3 weeks old when I get it. I have the tank mostly set up other than another larger stick coming in soon and I was wondering if my tank was up to par for the baby. I ahve a heat lamp on a timer and a heat mat connect to a temp thingy to make sure it doenst get too hot. Its a 40 gal. My temps and humidity are good but wanted to se eif theres anything i could do better. Any advice, tips, or tricks would be wonderful.

Hes roughly a year old. I bought him at an expo around a year ago, I did ask for an age, the old lady said about a month old. I went about my day and told my friend who later said, "Isn't that a bit young to sale?" If I remeber correctly I weighed him after his initial two weeks and he was about 45 or 50 g. I don't know his real age, but he is about a year old now. Hes ~24 in and ~216g. However, he doesn't look underweight. He's on small/med adult mice, about to bump up to slightly larger now that hes over 200g. He should be roughly 400g. All of his parameters are met (his basking spot is 90F and I had just misted it). He eats frozen well (last ate 2 days ago, eats every week) and just gave me a solid shed about a week ago. Everything else is going fine, he's just not in the right weight range.

After about a month of having him and transferring him to his final enclosure, and it being decorated, I finally wanted to show him off

He weighs 78 grams and roughly 16 inches long if i remember correctly. I'm currently feeding him Fuzzys, is that a good size? I was also told he was a blackhead mystic

It will be upgraded to a 55 when my snake gets older but I want to make sure I’m going in the right direction for the tank.

Any constructive criticism would be great! Just please be nice about it

This girl is my 10 year old ball python. I have to put her in a bin for 2 weeks so I can make her enclosure into a vivarium. On the second day, she shoved the top up from the bottom drawer, dislodging 16 screws. She then escaped and went up two stories before I found her in a basket covered in dust and dirt. She is taking a bath currently, and I will return her to her bin with a rat right after.

Snake tax^^ Yesterday I had a scare. I left for about an hour and came back to the probe having fallen off the basking spot and the tank at 100F warm side and 86F in the cool spots. Was so scared my boy was cooking :( I know tape or any adhesive shouldnt be used in an enclosure, so how should I secure the probe to make sure this doesn’t happen again? He pulls all suction cups off the walls by climbing. I have to leave my boy for two days for the first time this weekend and this incident has me stressed. Basking spot is on top of a flat-roofed hide

Hi all! I’d love some advice on handling this little guy. I’ve had him 3 weeks now and he’s eating, so I’ve been trying to start some handling.

I’m struggling on understanding when I’m pushing his boundaries too far, and when I’m doing it just enough to get him out of his comfort zone. So far, he hasn’t struck at me, but he definitely isn’t happy with handling. He will start balled up and breathing really heavy. Then he’ll usually poke his head out, but continue heavy breathing and stay frozen aside from tracking me with his head. He jerks away from any touch on his body, especially near the head.

Obviously I don’t want to get bit, but I’m not sure if I’m just being too cautious and reading too much into his body language. I don’t want to stress him out too much. Any tips on handling and body language are appreciated!

Photo is of him tracking me after I accidentally disturbed his sleep while going to check on the dampness in his humid hide. He had never gone in there before, so I think we were both surprised to see each other lol

reclaimed bricks and slabs were about as much as id spend on a medium resin hide.

gonna boil em probably get all of the life off it make sure theres no mites living in the crevaces

Hi everyone!
First, I just want to say that this subreddit is incredible and I have learned so much over the past week through the resources that are available here.

I am a primary (pre k - kindergarten) Montessori teacher, and I am required to have a classroom "pet". My stepdaughter was looking to find another place for her ball python, Luci, and I jumped on the opportunity to introduce him to my classroom. For context, because this isn't a traditional early childhood classroom there aren't toys or lots of noisy things happening or children running around. Before Luci joined the classroom, I sat with them all and let them know what the expectations were regarding Luci joining us like never tapping the glass, touching the top of the tank or reaching their hands in, etc. I also put tape lines on the floor about a foot away from his enclosure and showed them all how they could stand with their toes on the line or bring a chair to the line so they could observe. He's been in the classroom for a week now and they have all done so wonderfully to respect him and his space. He's stayed in his hide during the day but will occasionally poke his head out to sniff around or he will rest his head on his body and watch us from his hide. There have been signs of him leaving the hide overnight like the fake foliage I have in his enclosure having moved.
With that being said...I want to make sure that I am doing my best job to ensure his safety and comfort. I will say that we are starting out with sparse equipment, but I have a delivery today of things like a DHP, thermostat, humidity gauge, infrared heat gun, etc. Unfortunately, the 40-gallon tank we have now was donated by a family and has a mesh screen top and is glass so that is what we are working with until we can get the funds to upgrade it. I have purchased hvac aluminum tape for the top to help with heat and humidity retention. Luckily, we're already in a place that stays pretty humid year-round.
I have purchased some clutter for his tank already, so we have added that and I also just got him a second hide.
As for my questions...the hide that he came with was one of the log hides with 2 open sides and I had already purchased an identical one before I realized that it is more beneficial to have a hide with one entrance. Would a quick fix be to cover one end of each of the hides completely with foliage or other clutter? Also, I have the DHP and I am ordering a UVB bulb and another clamp lamp. I have a regular lamp right next to his enclosure that we can point at it, but it's nowhere near bright enough for basking. Would a basking light be beneficial? I am trying to limit the number of hot things that children are able to touch. I do have his enclosure sort of in a corner so if need be, I can put a light in a corner that it would be difficult for them to get to even if they were curious.

If anyone has any suggestions or experience with having a snake around young children, I would love to hear from you about what worked and what didn't work. I'm hoping to use this opportunity to help children learn about snakes by introducing lessons in my classroom like parts of a snake, their habitat, what they eat, etc. And for my kindergarten students, I will have them help me record daily temperature checks, weight, length, feeding schedule, etc. I'm excited to dive into caring for a ball python and appreciate all of the insight!

Before (left) after (right)
It’s hard to see the difference, but I swear it’s not the angle

He’s four years old, fully grown, I bought him off a breeder, completely healthy, just oddly small at the time

He’s a very picky eater, only ate white rats, and even then it was a 50/50 whether he’d eat it. Sometimes he’d spit it out after grabbing it, or just ignore it. I’d have to leave it in the tank, turn the lights off, and walk away, so I switched him to african soft furs, amazing. Up there pressing his nose to the mesh circle where they thaw the moment he smells them and wraps the moment he faces it.

But is it normal for them to get bigger?? After the first feeding on asf, his head seemed bigger, I just brushed it off as extra protein getting to him. Three feedings later, he’s huge?? (Not literally, just clearly more thick). He used to be insanely light, now I can actually feel him in my hand. Even my mom noticed without me saying anything.

I thought he was just weirdly small, like any animal having size differences (I have an abnormally giant female bp too, absolute unit), so I didn’t think anything of it, but I didn’t expect him to grow?? Is this normal? He gets fed every two weeks with one small asf.

Has this happened to anyone else?? Is he just weird or is this normal?

Hi there! I’ve had a bp for a few years now, but I just adopted this girl from someone downsizing their collection. She arrived today and when I was looking her over I noticed these small pink spots. Is this something to worry about? I’ve never had a snake with white scales before so I wasn’t sure if this was normal. Naturally a couple google searches scared me into thinking it’s the beginning of scale rot or some other horrible thing…but I don’t think it is. I don’t want to make an emergency vet appointment if this is something super simple and well known.

Okay i just have to ask because I genuinely dont know what to do or why this is happening, but my ball python was always the sweetest, always so curious, but suddenly she starting getting defensive, getting into the s pose whenever i opened up the enclosure, and today, i was going to open it to clean everything up, and my hand reached the glass so i could slide it open, and suddenly she lunged out, striking. The enclosure wasnt even open yet. She just lunged tho. Does anyone know what i could do? And is it safe to take her out Tomorrow because im gonna be doing a deep clean and also moving few stuff and adding more hides in it.

So I fully waterproofed my melanin Viv as was worried it wouldn't last, sealed all the gaps - put down uPVC sheeting on the floor and sealed that... Where does it bow?

Dead centre on the roof... The glass was basically hanging out I noticed today.

Quick fix with some weights to get it straight again and a PVC Viv ordered ... Early Christmas present for Belle I guess!