Frank looked pretty comfortable last night while waiting for his dinner.

It was so funny seeing him trying to periscope with the leaf around his head. He managed to get it off about 20 seconds later.

Other groups have warriors in the comments insisting that BPs are uncontainable and will 100% escape regardless of whether you snake proof a tank or watch your snake when he roams. I wanna know how many of you have had BPs for years and they never escaped because you do steps to prevent it :)

Edit: i am GLAD we all agree that escapes are preventable and I hope as a community we can raise the standard of keeping these animals safe!

Hi everyone I’m a first time snake parent and this is my ghost girl Eleanor (Nora) we got her Friday and she’s formally starting to venture out ! If anyone could leave any tips on handling feeding anything really it would be greatly appreciated, her current hot side temp is 92 and the cool side is 78 her humidity is at about66-67 .

Idk about yall. But my BP identifies as semi arboreal. F the terrestrial life he says. (For those who may be concerned- he has 5 hides. He chooses the climbing life. And- who can blame him??)

Hey guys! I was hanging out with my sweet angel Vic on the couch the other day and he decided to go through one of the holes in a crochet blanket. I wasn’t too worried at first cause I figured if his head fit through the hole, the rest of his body would too. Well, I ended up cutting the blanket to get him out. But I can’t stop wondering if he could have gotten out of it. Thoughts?

Got him out again, we had some company and I wanted to show off my new baby! Nobody else held him, just looked. He's opening up a lot now, and has been so silly lately

He also ate his third meal last night, Im so proud of him! We ordered a 2×2×18 tank for him while we save for his final. Did not realize how quickly he was gonna grow..

After 4-5 months with me, Phantom's burns are gone. Any trace of stuck shed is gone aswell.

He sits I guess 🤣

I thought it was just staining at first, so I tried rubbing him a little bit with a wet paper towel and a tiny bit of yellow came off so I thought oh surely this is just substrate staining! Yay, that’s easy to fix. But then it just stopped coming off at some point and it just stayed there. So what do I do now?

Okay so I know my girl is in a growth spurt but last week I think I definitely overfed her. The last pic was the day I got her at Aquashella. She looked healthy and hydrated and I don’t think that picture does justice to how tiny she really was. She easily fit in my palm. Breeder said she was eating pinky rat pups so that’s what I gave her the first few weeks. However after she ate she was really sniffing around so I’d run back to get her a hopper too to make sure she was good. She’d take it every time and instead of (what appeared to me as) looking for more, she’d laze out or hide which indicated to me that she was satisfied. 3 weeks ago she was 90 g, then I moved on from the rat/mouse combo to two rat pups which she seemed to appreciate. I know they can’t talk but she genuinely seemed happier when she had that meal. I re weighed later that week and she hit 140g. I kept her at the two rat pups until last weekend I gave her two and she still looked hungry so I gave her a hopper too. She was interested but took the hopper suuuper slow so I worried that the hopper was too much even though she took it. Acted normal after eating. I know I need to reweigh her to really see where we’re at with feeding and that she should only be getting 10-15% body weight until she hits 500g.

I guess my overall question her is, should I stretch out her feeding since I know I overfed her last week? She consistently eats every Saturday so I was worried it’ll stress her if I stretch her out until Tuesday I was thinking? Planning to reweigh before feeding again either way. She is my first snake so I like to think I understand her but advice from more experienced owners is always helpful and appreciated.

Pippen guard of the citadel

I'm moving this weekend, It's about a 4.5hr drive to the new place. I made sure to feed last week so his stomach is settled. My plan is to set him up in a double pillowcase set in a large stock pot that about the circumference of his favorite hide. Is there anything specific I should do to help him stay warm? I'm afraid of using a beanbag warmer under the pot in case it gets too hot but I also don't want him too cold!!!

I figure i'm probably very overthinking everything, tia for any tips!!

i also saw a tiny tiny bug crawling on him but no bite marks on his body and his body is white so i should be able to if he was bitten

Hey everyone!

I’m looking for recommendations for a budget-friendly night vision camera so I can keep an eye on my ball python, Brownie, when she’s most active at night!

Ideally, I’d love something that:

🐍 Has decent night vision without needing visible lights.
Connects to my smartphone so I can check on her anytime.
🐍 Has a clear enough picture to see what she’s up to.
🐍 Is affordable! I don’t need anything super fancy.

I’d also love to know how you’ve mounted your cameras or positioned them to get a good view of the enclosure.

What cameras are you guys using, and would you recommend them? Bonus points if you can share nighttime footage or pictures so I can see the quality!
Thanks in advance! 🐍❤️

Got a new set up for her and she was checking it out and tried to squeeze through a very small Crack between the sliding plexiglass and the wall. Ive seen several posts where if its a very superficial scrape to wait for a shed and it should heal. She is now shedding but my humidity in this tank hasn't been perfect right out the gate and shes shedding but its bad and I feel awful enough but the part that was scraped is indeed starting to peel but now she just has this huge strip of scale peeling back off her nose. I dont see any raised swelling or fleshy red or pink coloration anywhere and I think I saw someone say the first shed may make it look worse so I am trying not to panic and I think I literally just have to wait. Im fair sure I should not try to like give her a bath and get it off myself right? BTW I have gotten humidity back to near 70 pretty consistently so I have hope she'll be back to normal next shed.

We've had our snake for three years and in the past couple of months we've been catching him fairly frequently soaking in his water bowl. I know this is not normal behavior. We have one other ball python in a nearly identical enclosure who is not doing this behavior. We don't see mites on either snake. My husband and I are both veterinarians if that qualifies us more to make that assertion. We have examined them both several times. The water bowl is on the cool side. I'm attaching photos of the tank and the thermometer/hygrometers on both sides. He's about three years old. I feed him one small rat once monthly around the 1st of every month sometimes a quail or chick (5-7% of his body weight per meal). He eats reliably. He sheds normally. Last shed might have been around a month ago. While we've been trying to figure this out we've been cooling down the tank. For awhile it was warmer -low 90s on the warm side, low 80s on the cool side.

Happy to answer any questions and take any feedback, I just want to help him. Thank you!

So I read the guide and all that but I still can’t process on the lighting and heating

The picture is wat the enclosure looks like

Have my boy in a temporary tub while his enclosure gets renovated🙂‍↕️ why's he sleeping so weirdly🥲

We got our first ball python 4 weeks ago. He's had these spots along his spine since then. What could they be? They feel rougher to the touch but haven't gotten worse or better?