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[badkittyamy]

[badkittyamy]

any idea on how to keep the humidity up guys? I can't tell whether he's got retained lens caps (which I'm just going to leave alone and hope they come off next shed) or if it's wrinkling due to dehydration/lack of humidity

[badkittyamy]

Anejo and my Lady









He's settling in pretty quickly though as is to be expected he spends all the time in his hide. He has 4 years to catch up on you know.

[SoundUnsleep]

Sweet! Looks like he's eating up on the attention.
Two things: 1. Consider a different hut. The habba's are nice, but a pain in the rear to clean and will develop fungus with the kind of moisture that you need. 2. To get the humidity up get some spaghnum moss from the pet store, wet it down some, put into a plastic container with lid (puncture lots of little holes into the lid) and place the container into the tank. To further raise humidity place a piece of plexiglass (or something else flat) over half of the screen.

[TammyJamaica]

Originally Posted by JuliusSqueezer

Pretty snake

About "switching"...They don't "switch". They just eat. Usually it's the keeper's way of thinking that needs "switched". Your snake has no clue of our freezing and thawing process. It's not even likely with their limited short term memory that they even know that they didn't kill it themselves a short while earlier. The fact that it's been fed live for how many ever years doesn't matter. It's likely that wild snakes are eating live their whole lives too but it's never an issue to "switch" them to f/t once they are caught and in captivity.

This seems to me to be very true, JS. And when I feed our BPs, once the snake is in its "feeding box", I immediately toss the rat down rather hard right in front of him and he whaps it at once, like it was a rude intruder! (he has no idea that it is already dead!) and he constricts it and "kills" it again!

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[TammyJamaica]

Originally Posted by Blood Boa

she is very healthy, i mean, look how fat she is

Fat does not necessarily mean healthy, she may in fact be in need of exercise, or feeding less often, I don't know, but anyway, she is an absolute beauty! Congratulations.

Keep her quarantined from any other snakes you have, for a while just to make sure. Be safe.

[TammyJamaica]

Originally Posted by SSReptiles

Congrats on getting your new ball python. Just a fair warning, ball pythons are picky with what they want to eat. Since she's been only eating live, she may only take live. Ball Pythons are known to only eat live rodents.
If she eats f/t for you, that's great! You got very lucky.

Again, congrats on getting a ball python. I have two myself, and they eat just about anything you threw in front of them.

Both our BPs happily quaff down dead rats, and both of them started on live mice before I got wise.

	Ball Python The Ball Python (Python regius), also known as the Royal Python, is a ground dwelling snake native to the savannahs and rain forests in western Africa, predominatly the countries of Ghana, Togo, and Benin.

	Frozen/Thawed A rodent or other prey item that is frozen and then thawed to be fed to a reptile or other animal.

[badkittyamy]

It's official Anejo is a she, got her sexed today.