I thought I'd take a second to introduce myself instead of lurking. I adopted a BP yesterday. They told me that she is a yellow belly. I've never had a snake before so I'm not 100% sure what to do with her yet. She's decent sized. I haven't measured her yet because she won't sit still, but I guess she's about 30 inches long. They told me that she is about 2 years old. She is very active. She moves around her tank a lot. She also spends a lot of time exploring while I am holding her.

She seems to be a very good eater. Right after I got her home I noticed that she was doing that yawing looking thing so I tried to feed her. I was told to give her 2 mice. She was used to live, but I gave her f/t. She snatched them out of my hand so fast. (dangled the mice by the tail, don't have hemostats yet) After the first once she took right to the second one. She seemed to take a little longer on that one, but I think that she would have taken another. I am considering feeding her a f/t rat next time.

One question. SHe came with two lights. One is white and the other is red. There are also two under tank lights. I've been keeping both lights on during the day and only one heating pad on (red light side). At night I turn off the white light. What am I supposed to do with them?

So my project list for now is....
confirm that she is a yellow belly (tried to upload pic, but tech difficulties)

get her some better hides. She came with a shoe box that had an entire side removed. I thought that it was too big and open so I got 2 smaller boxes with small, offset openings. It took her a while to figure out how to get in, but she seems to like them.

Find her something besides a pie tin for her water. She needs something big enough for her to get in because she really seems to like her water. I had a smaller one but she keeps tipping it. A pie dish was the only other thing I had.

Get her something to climb. She seems really bored in her tank spends a lot of time going up the side. I think something to climb would be nice for her.