Snakes: Python Regius (Ball Python)
But before we get going lets take a few things into consideration.
- Not everyone will appreciate your new found friend. Ask those who will be living with it BEFORE you buy one
- Snakes are predators and they can appear brutal, but when compared to most peoples table manners they’re quite endearing
- Prey animals don’t like to die and they WILL scream when they are being constricted. Keep this in mind when you’re showing it off to people because not everyone will be as appreciative of feeding time as you are
- Every snake is a unique personality. Just like every other living creature. Because one snake likes to sleep curled up in your pocket doesn’t mean its brood mate will
- Snake grow. Some such as the Burmese python (who we’ll take a good look at a little later) can get huge! Over 20 feet and 200 pounds. Others only a couple of feet and a few pounds. Keep this in mind as you’re looking for a snake to buy
- Snakes can live well over 20 years. That’s a long term commitment. Be sure you are ready, willing, and able
- Never ever attempt to scare someone with your snake. They are misunderstood as it is the last thing we need is for some poor granny to keel over dead because you shoved your pet snake “Gertrude” in her face
- When adopting get one that is captive hatched, already feeding (be sure to see it happening to verify), and local to your area so you can pick it up
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There are a ton more “rules” I could list out, but lets get started with the fun stuff.
- Ball Python (Python regius)
- The Ball Python (sometimes called a Royal python) is known for being docile and shy. It grows to be about 3-4 feet in length when full grown and gets its common name from the fact will often coil up into a ball when frightened. Consistent handling will help this snake overcome its shyfulness however don’t be alarmed if it still coils into a ball. That is the nature of the animal.
One problem with this snake is that they are known to stop eating for no apparent reason. Snakes can go a long time without food so it isn’t always as big a problem as it might seem. It seems to happen most frequently in wild caught specimens and that’s a good reason as any to get a captive hatched one.
Experience level: Intermediate beginner. I would go with beginner except the fact that these snakes are known to stop eating and getting them to feed again can be quite a chore.
Aggressiveness: Very low. Will sometimes strike out of fear, but is much much more likely to coil up into a ball.
Food:
- Baby – Pinkies
- Adolescent – Full grown mice, gerbils, etc
- Adult – Rats and similar sized rodents
Of course every snake is different so one might be dining on large rats while another of the same size will only eat mice.
Price: It depends on the age and marking (pattern)of the snake but expect anywhere from $50.00 to several hundred dollars. The difference in price is usually only a matter of their appearance and really has nothing to do with things like temperment.
And now for a few videos of our friend the Ball Python in action. The first one is a baby only a few months old and the second is a full grown adult.
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In the next few days we’ll spend some time with a 20 foot plus beauty and learn what it takes to handle an animal like that.
Nice! I had a ball python for over 20 years, and they are fine pets. I remember at least one non-snake person being encouraged enough to touch her, and they were surprised to find that she was not slimey at all. Actually, snakes feel like the finest leather.
My snake did go off her feed a couple of times. Once when I had only had her about a year, and I stressed and tried everything with no luck. Then, the following summer she started up again. I never fed her in the winter at all. The second time was about 10 years later and coincided with my plan to raise my own mice. Not pretty.
I was always careful to check her at shedding time to make sure the skin came off cleanly, especially around the eyes. If there were some stubborn patches it was time for a soak in the tub. I enjoyed watching her submerge and relax.
You are right, you just need to learn your snake’s personality. They are very interesting animals.
Karen – I’m going to be getting another one in the next couple of months. I had one before but a move and a few other issues made me give him up to a friend. I was debating a Burmese, but fact of the matter is I can’t dedicate the time necessary to that size of a snake. I’ll probably also get a California Kingsnake at the same time I get my new Ball.
what an interesting post, I agree… snakes are absolutely amazing creatures and the only reason stopping me from having a pet snake is the fact that there’s no room for one.
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Tamara – No room? Balls aren’t all that big and even a full grown adult can get along well in a 30 gallon setup. You might even consider a corn/rat snake if you ever decide to get one.
well, I kind of feel sorry for them having to stay in a confined area, even if it was a big massive tank, I’d have it freely crawl around the flat!lol I’m not really one for pets in tanks or cages.
The baby python is really cute by the way.
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Tamara – Mine are out for the most part with me. If I’m not home they stay in the tank. Mostly for their own safety and everyone else’s sanity.
And I agree that baby python is a little darling. Cute as a button.
wow this was a random shot finding your blog but i have a question.. my father called me asking about his friend and his daughter about there python.. one day the snake stoped eatting so they took it to the vet he couldnt find anything wrong with him another week went back and still not eatting.. i brought up about them being able to not eat for awhile.. well the next time they brought it back to the vet and the girl told the vet it use to curl up on her bed by her feet ( on top of her bed sheets) the vet told her to get rid of the snake that it was sizes it self up to her to see if it could eat her.. mind you i dont really know if i belives this or not.. but i thought i would look for some answer/ advies so when ever you get a chance if you wouldnt mind e-mailing what your thoughts are and if you ever heard of this.. oh btw i love snakes i dont want anyone to think because im asking this that i hate them. there amazing reptiles anyway heres my e-mail
mizzfit00@aol.com thank you for your time
Cha – The short answer is as follows. The vet is an idiot.
The long answer follows –
The vet is an idiot who should be beaten.
To properly answer your question however I’d need to know a few things.
1) What kind of snake?
2) How big was/is the girl?
3) How big is the snake?
A few things to keep in mind –
a) A snake generally won’t try to eat anything that is wider than it is at its widest point. Doing so generally doesn’t work out to well for the snake
b) Snakes are quite possibly the dumbest creatures in all of God’s creation. So the very idea it was “sizing her up” is beyond laughable.
c) And in case I didn’t make it clear the first time, the vet is an idiot.
Finally I’m wondering why exactly this girl would be sleeping with a snake? I love snakes, but sleeping with them… uh, no…
hey, i have a question… i’ve had my ball python for 11 years and i’ve heard it make a screaming noise for the first time lately. is that normal. its like a weird breathing noise.
thanks, carrie
Hey, i have a ball python and she is making a weird breathing noise like a sound a mice would make and am not sure what to do.. she is my fisrt pet snake and a worry about her so can someone help me plz???
I have a ball python and he is a little over 2 feet. He is a very interesting pet to have, he is never mean, even though when he gets frightened and strikes back into a clump/ball, he is just acting frightened. If you know a thing or two about ball pythons you would know that they can be picky eaters, but they do have a reason. sometimes its due to shedding and they dont have the desire to eat. also they are normally bred in captivity and to go after another animal that can bite back and harm the python, it does not seam to be very appetizing to your snake. now i said that he was a little over 2 feet long so we decided to get him a hopper( baby mouse-the next step above a pinky, and fuzzy but not a large as a regular mouse. we have decided to stun the mouse by simply flicking it in the head, it sounds mean i know but your snake has to eat. but before you do all of this take your snake out of the cage and then stun the mouse, clear out the hiding spaces and vines but it is ok to leave the water dish depending on the size of your snake and your tank. then once you have stunned the mouse stick the snake back into the cage. he will then move his body so it is surounding the mouse(if enough possible room) then he will find its pulse at the back of the neck and dig its head deep into the neck just to sense and smell the mouse and its pulse and it looks very amusing, then he strikes and then you and your snake are both very happy.
to aqua! i had the same problem and for a second i thought that there was still a mouse in the cage from the numerous times i was trying to feed him, but i later had found out by observing him that it was just the noise from his tounge slithering out of his mouth. and i have heard this for about a month, and he is doing just fine. im not a snake doctor, but my snake is like my child. i take care of him very well. i think your ok
to carrie, well my snake makes a noise just like aquas and it sounds like a little mouse, but its not a screaming noise, its so quite that i can barely hear it but then when i do i cant get it out of my head, if it is really bad take it to the vet, and from one snake lover to another, dont over exaggerate if it doesnt sound normal at all do something about it,
to cha, how old is the girl and how big is the snake, becuase these snakes get the name ball python because they are very docile and they are not mean, they are more frightened, and i have always heard and have experienced that if something is quite larger than the snake it self then it wont strike at it, there was one incident report that a snake didnt eat for 14 months and was ok. and the snake also might have been looking for somewhere warm and maybe there were blankets at the bottom of the bed. my snake always tries to escape in blankets and clothes and under the cushins its just there nature. tell the doctor to research and learn what he is talking about first and then give you an explanation
I love ball pythons. I have 3 (2 males and 1 female.)
I’ve had one of the males (Osiris) for almost 3 years. He’s about 5 foot and extremely gentle and he’s quite the explorer and escape artist. As far as I know, he has never bit a human. He would not eat the first 10 months I had him. In April ‘07 he escaped. After he had been missing for a week I thought I’d never see him again, so I bought 2 more ball pythons. Osiris turned up the next day (figures, right?)
The female (Isis) is a high morph ball python and she is the smallest. She’s about 2 foot. She is very shy. She just warmed up to me in the past 3 months. she was abused by her previous owner and she was very leary of humans.
Ra, the other male, is about 3.5 feet and he is very outgoing and energetic.
They are such sweet creatures, I wish they weren’t so misunderstood by American society.
Im thinking of getting a new snake, i mean another for a companion for mine. i have a ball python that is almost 3 inches, not a picky eater anymore, friendly but still skiddish are humans but getting better. i was wondering if a companion would make him happier and more friendly, and i thought that we had a male, but when i did more research i found out that both males and females have those spikes at the end of there tails so i really dont know how to tell and i really dont like anyone else to handle him besides me and my boyfriend
CRISIS! 101! Yesterday me and my boyfriend fed our juvenille ball python, well we had to go and pick up my car at the shop and we forgot to put the weights back on top of the cage, and we remember as we were coming home, but figured that because he just ate that he wouldnt want to move around alot. well we walked into the bedroom and i just couldnt believe it, i mean i know that they are escape artists and all but i used to forget about the weights quite frequently in the past and he never got out. Now we live in a tiny apartment, but there is one major cut out under one of the shelves in the closet, connected to the bath tub area. We tore everything up looking for monty(our ball) and finally we lifted up the part of the couche in the bedroom and he had gone to the bathroom, so we knew he was close. so we were looking in the big cut out under the built in closet and we found him, but he was about 6 feet back and neither of us could fit back there and he went from one side to the other, and im sure he was having the time of his life, but we dont want him to get through the apartment floors and walls and never see him again, he might get hurt on want of the pipes, they could be too hot, some places might be too cold. and for god sakes who knows what kind of creatures live in the walls and floors. Here is a story that will explain what i dont want to happen to our snake.
we have a friend and he had moved into a new home when he was younger. after he had lived there for about four years a 14ft. boa came out from somewhere in the wall and hid dad shot it. so plz someone help me with this problem
Carrie and Aqua – Sounds like RI. Have it checked out
Monty – Ball pythons can be picky eaters, yes, but that isn’t the “norm”. Also I (and most folks who are knowledgeable about snakes) take exception to some of your advise. Such as clearing everything out before you feed. There’s no need to do this and it actually causes a lot of undue stress for the snake. You don’t need to clear a path for the snake to strike. It can strike effectively with hardly any room to maneuver.
Also you indicate you stun the mouse. Why? If you fed frozen/thawed there’d be no need to stun it.
I’m also a little confused with this crap you’re trying to tell my readers about the snake burying it’s head in the back of the mouse’s neck to sense the pulse. That is complete and utter garbage. A total fabrication that no doubt someone lied to you about. A BP is constrictor. You throw a f/t rat in with it and it will still strike and constrict. There’s no pulse to be found and it still goes at it with the same gusto.
bipolar – I agree. They are great animals (actually all snakes are not just BPs) and sadly misunderstood by general society. What kind of morph is Isis?
brianne – a 3 inch BP? Spikes at the end of their tails? first BPs hatch out at about 12 to 16 inches. i assume you meant 3 feet and not 3 inches? Also you can’t use the “spikes” at the end of the tail to determine the sex of a snake. you either need to pop or probe to be accurate and even then it isn’t 100%.
as far as finding your lost snake i wrote an article on my other blog about it. you can find it here
yes sorry i did mean 3 feet but anyways my snake had escaped down through the floors and all around the pipes and im guessing towards the hot water heater or something. i had called a pet store and they told me that when a snake senses heat, food, or water they just go for it. they do think they just survive, which is what i was told. so i decided that when i got home i was going to try to lure him out of the mysterious apartment complex floors. I took one of those mini heaters and placed it near the space that he had escaped, then i also filled a bowl with water and i just walked away and cleaned the house. well i kept checking every 5 minutes because i love my snake “Monty” so much and finally about an hour or two later i walked by the built in shelves( where he had escaped at the very bottom through a huge opening, right where you could see the pipes and front of the bathtub, landlord never fixed it) but i just walked by and there is was just about ready to take a sip of water! i couldnt believe my eyes, it felt like it was the best thing that has ever happened to me. i thought for sure that he was long gone or he was gonna live in the walls and pipes eating mice til he got so big that he couldnt move and would die there! but anyways i then put him back in his cage, and now he is just like non-stop trying to escape he tried to hard for atleast 2-3 hours last night.
oh sorry i forgot one thing. i love this little website and its interesting and comforting to know that you can relate to other people about your pet, because non of my friends have a snake they think that it is scary and gross. but my point is, my first blog i wrote, i was “monty” and it was so cool because i could tell others things they were not sure about and hey im no expert here just trying to help out someone that really cares about there snake. i dont know who exactly runs this website but when people have questions about things you dont need to be such a fucking smart ass, and if i want to share the information with others, as like what my snake does(for example digging its face into the back of the mouses head while its stunned? yeah he does and i dont buy frozen mice because its not convienent for me where i live and my snake is content with what i feed him or her. but honestly if your going to run a damn website atleast try to get off your high fucking horse and inform people, you know in a nice way. im just an 18 yr. old girl in the United States Air Force that loves her pet snake and would give any information those that love there pets the same.
brianne – It’s great that you love your pet snake. Not so great that you’re giving bad information. To say that your snake is trying to sense a pulse is absurd. Sorry, but it is. As far as why you should feed f/t instead of live… because it is safer for the snake.
You won’t see a dead mouse/rat doing that. Any questions?
wow, i do see your point that is a very disturbing picture. but we stun the mouse by flicking it in the head and if the mouse moves a little bit, then he strikes and its all over. now we always watch our snake feed. we never give him a mouse and walk away. so if the mouse would start moving around and biting him we would do something. even tho it is risky reaching into his feeding grounds. and im not giving bad information. i wish you could just be a little more open minded. i dont make up things i just tell things that i observe. sorry that my snake dug down deep into the back of the mouses neck and just like sniffed the mouse or something. i mean y else would a snake do that? huh? to see how good it smells i dont think so. well your going to be an asshole about this one way or another. its just sad that your 33 and you pride yourself on this little website by being mean to others just because they give you information that you dont even know about, im done here, you are pathetic.
Brianne, not only are you giving out bad information but you are being rude and throwing a hissy hit when you are called on it!
Snakes aren’t looking for a pulse, they poke their prey to find where the head is, if they were looking for a pulse why then do my snakes always poke their dead food and then eat it? If they were looking for a pulse why didn’t they refuse to eat when they failed to find a pulse? Answer – because they weren’t looking for a pulse to begin with.
And they grab the mouse behind the head to stop it from biting them
the only thig is you need to watch it. we never stun or freeze the rat we feed it like it is and we supervise the whole thing.
TO EVERYONE FEEL FREE TO FEED LIVE!
JUST SUPERVISE!!!
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Hey guys feeding of live rodents is against the law here in the uk Frozen and thawed is the onlyoption and 1005 safer for our snakes
I have to agree. The snake is not looking for a pulse. It is good that you stun the mouse before you give it to your snake so that there is less of a chance of your snake getting injured.It is also good that you never leave the snake to feed unattended in case of a problem. Frozen food is safer but, speaking from experience, some snakes refuse to eat thawed mice and some don’t care.I don’t see any need for name calling though. Everyone has very varied opinions and experience when it comes to taking care of their beloved reptilian friends.
Brianne – Your information is bad. You originally stated that Monty did this to “feel for a pulse”. I simply said that was BS. Nothing more, nothing less. The snake is not checking for a pulse. That’s a simple fact.
If you don’t trust me on this go to ball-pythons.net and ask in the forums if your snake is checking for a pulse when it does this. If the majority of KNOWLEDGEABLE people say that it is I will send you a $50.00 check.
That’s right either you’re going to become educated or you’re going to become $50.00 richer and I will become educated.
If you take me up on the challenge here’s what you need to do. Send me an email (you know the address) stating your username and a link to your first post asking about it on the forum. The post should be a poll asking simply “Do snakes check their food for a pulse?” and the poll options should be “Yes”, “No”, or “I don’t know”
$50 or the chance to learn a little something. Either way it should be valuable to you. And for the record I’m not rich, $50 hurts coming out of my pocket. It’s a sacrifice for me. This despite what you seem to think you know about me.
then y would he dig his head deep down into the back of the mouses neck?
That was already explained quit giving out bad info and throwing a fit on the interweb when everyone on here calls you on it. See That why he does what he does with the rodent. god help your snake
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Snakes aren’t looking for a pulse, they poke their prey to find where the head is, if they were looking for a pulse why then do my snakes always poke their dead food and then eat it? If they were looking for a pulse why didn’t they refuse to eat when they failed to find a pulse? Answer – because they weren’t looking for a pulse to begin with.
Sorry for bad grammer:L
Well, wouldn’t you want to hold something from behind it’s head if it could bite you back? Why do you think you grab a venomous snake from behind it’s head? SO it can’t bite you. Same with the mouse. It can’t bite the python’s head if it grabs at the back of it’s neck and now the python has a good deal of bodily control over the mouse as well. Now it is easier to control the mouse and get it into a safer kill scenario and then feed. Also, after the mouse has died the snake can now easily eat head first like it is meant to. This is probably the best reason a python would brag at the base of the neck before constricting.
And as far as not being open-minded, we are open minded to alot. We also know more than you may think. We study these animals and when you apply basic knowledge of an animal, observation, and some thought you get what is really going on. You saw it, thought about it, but then failed to apply the proper information. It is a common mistake that many people have probably already made.
Mice should alway be thawed out and dead before eating. It is more than just keeping the safe snake, it is about keeping you safe. Feeding dead mice keeps down a snake’s learned aggressiveness that can come from feeding live prey. Live prey can lead to an animal, be it snake, monitor or w/e, to become more aggressive. It is a risk I am not willing to take with an animal in my house. I refuse to raise any animal that I will be afraid to handle. Aside from that, like we all said, it is still safer for the python to be fed dead prey anyways so why not just reap the extra rewards for being a conscientious owner?
Hope you learned something. Even stunned prey can surprise you and hurt a python, especially when the python is stuck in a cage or a confined space.
you obviously haven’t done your homework on this subject. Snakes can be feed live rodents as long as you feed the snake in a seperate tank.
I just had to add to this discussion because the misinformation is laughable.
Snakes aren’t checking for a pulse when they nuzzle into the back, neck, or belly of their prey. They are simply sizing up the meal and figuring out how they’re going to consume it. Most snakes will consume their prey head first and, without a pair of hands, they have to smell out the head and maneuver their jaws around the neck in order to get a better hold of the animal. Of course, there are some snakes that simply don’t care what end they start eating from, but at no point is the snake making sure that it’s food has no pulse. They immobilize their food instinctually by constriction and when the animal no longer moves, they begin to feed. In the event that a frozen/thawed or a prekilled feeder is used, feeding is that much quicker.
Never a good idea to put a LIVE mouse or rat in a cage with your snake. The only time I use live is in the case of coaxing newly hatched babies to take their first meal and that’s usually a mouse pink and far from a threat to the snake.
i have always fed mt ball live mice, or young rats, i dont see anything wrong with this, he is a snake for gods sake, its what he does. like i read in a post above, if i saw the rodent biting or scratching him in a bad place i would help out until he was shall i say choked out. i would never leave a rodent in the cage unattended. i dont think there is anything wrong with feeding frozen mice either, whatever is more convenient or to your preferance.
hey, I lost my young BP about a year ago (my little sister played with her and put her back when I wasn’t home and didnt put the top back on on without the weights) but it was only a baby, about 3-4 months old. Now I am planning on getting another (finally found a top that clamps on) and the one I might be getting is about a year old. So I was wandering, how big is a one year old? I need to know so I can have the proper-sized tank for it.
Thank You
oops, i ment she put the top on without the weights and then my BP escaped. lol my bad
Angel – Size depends on a few factors; genetics, how much it eats, how often it eats, housing conditions. With that said it’s hard to tell you exactly how large it will be.
Remember you don’t want a tank that is too large as BPs really like smaller, tighter areas. I’d say look into a 20 gallon long.
I really think that this is a matter of common sense here isn’t it people? If you care about your snake and are interested in it at all you are going to watch it eat… I mean for a couple days at a time this might be the most movement you see in your tank is when feeding. You wouldn’t leave a child unattended to prepare a meal, Why leave you pet unattended to eat one that can potentially fight back! If your Snake will eat frozen offerings GREAT!, If not… be responsible offer, watch, and separate if neccessary! The only rat my almost 5ft ball didn’t eat was removed after about a half hour of climbing all aver the tank and the snake, offered again the following day and well…became a family pet (hazzards of having kids who think the rat is cutter than the snake.)
i would just like to say, Spike, my ball python would not eat frozen mice at all. He ate one and then refused to eat for over a month. We had to find a vet to look at him and they said nothing was wrong. So my boyfriend thought maybe he wanted to hunt for his food. We have given him a live one ever since and he has nit stopped eating in over a year.
For your snake’s sake, F/T or pre-killed, I have had retics, balls, burmeses, Boas etc for the last 30 yrs. I have heard just about every type of info you could imagine, some good some bad, 3 yrs ago I purchased 2 GTPS everyone one I knew and almost every dealer at the reptile show told me how nasty their disposition is. I found that their disposition is actually good the problem is they stress easily and then strike in fear. Point is most people misunderstand snakes and or their behavior and that is okay just ask knowledgeable people and don’t just take one source as the authority.
FYI My green trees are both BIAKS (supposedly the worst attitude) one was a yellow neonate and the other was a dark red they came from different places, also have a Ball python who lives in the confines with the GTPS and before anyone jumps on the GTP VS BP bandwagon understand my area is large and setup with differentiating temperatures and humidity with a cave and many trees. I have been told many times that this will not work yet it does. My snakes are very healthy, always and I mean always eat, shed well and are of normal activeness. Sometimes although rare the GTPs will stay in the cave and many times around 3:00 am the BP hangs out in the TREES right next to 1 of the GTPs. Point of all this become educated at least to some degree don’t take just one source, remember no one knows everything, your reptiles health depend on it
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i have a diamond pythno (australian species). they can grow up to two and 1/2 metres long. when i feed her mice, hold the mouse by the tail (still alive) and let the snake kill it bye it self. how ever when i feed it rats i usaly kill them my self or purchase them dead from the pet shop. i hate killing rats but you can not feed the live because they will make a meel of your snake
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i want to know that what is the meaning of pinkies in india mean.
any other foodf items does a 10 day baby python regius/ball snake eats.
a pinkie ia a baby rodent, usually a mouse or rat, that is newborn and hairless.
jitesh, a pinkie is a newborn mouse or rat, they don’t have any hair and are pink, hence “pinkie”.
hi we have 4 month old ball python and have tied to feed it 4 times with no luck. on the last attempt the snake struck at the mouse and coiled around it but after about 5 minutes left the mouse there and went back to his hide. whats up with that?
I recently adopted an approximately 14 year old Ball Python. She is still stressed and spends most of her time “balled” up and not interested in being handled. All of which is fine. Her first feed went well and she ate her medium rat fine. I will eventually be weaning her over to frozen/thawed, but since she is still stressed I didn’t want to change her routine that much. She also just shed…though quite poorly. I’m hoping this is just the stress though and not a sign that she is ill.
Anyway, the point of my post is, today I got her out to get acclimated to me and I was a little nervous and I think it might have made her nervous as well. I had one of my hands holding her at the widest part of her and felt a “thumping”…kinda like a heartbeat, but really strong and only twice or three times. Does anyone know what this is and what it means? I could actually SEE a small pulsing (about the size of a fig maybe a little larger). I put her away immediately in case it was her heart and she was THAT stressed.
Another newbie question…when thawing a frozen rat…how do you do that? Put it in the fridge? Leave it on the counter? Microwave it? And for how long (for any of those). She eats approximately medium sized rats.
Finally, what temperature should a bath be? I have heard with a bad shed that a bath can help, and I might want to try that if she doesn’t finish her shed soon. I was told by her previous owners that she does like baths.
Thanks so much in advance!
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I have a ball python and I absolutely love him to death! He gets handled often and love to “make a bracelet” on my arm. I was wondering, does this mean he likes me or is he trying to hurt me? I don’t know how tight they squeeze mice, and he’s just a baby so I dont know how powerful his squeeze is. Can someone help me please? No, he’s never bitten me or gotten into a ball when I approach or handle him, if that helps
I think yall are idiots do you think wild snakes come across frozen mice very often? i believe that having a captive animal is only right if you give it the most natural life possible and any snake has the instinct and ability to eat a mouse or rat of the correct size for his size to capture and eat with out getting hurt from it. if you make the mistake of feeding a giant strong rat to a ball python thats your own stupidity. feeding an adult python adult multiple adult mice will be fine to give him the meal he needs and can conquer
Lea – No they don’t come across frozen mice in the wild, but they also aren’t locked up with them in 20 or 40 gallon enclosures that the mice/rats can’t escape. But I’m not going to argue the point with you because I’m willing to bet you don’t have a ball python, or any other snake for that matter.