Noise and ball pythons

[ThePiedPython]

I had a small question about noise and ball pythons. I'll be getting my new BP sometime in January. Currently, I own 5 peach face Lovebirds who can be quite noisy sometime. My BP will be staying in my room but his tub will be away from my lovebirds. I was wondering because they chirp a lot, will it stress my BP out and cause it to go off feed or should it be fine? I've heard ball pythons can't really hear but that they can feel vibrations.

[ShaleneRafuse]

I can only tell you from my experience, which is slim to none, my bp doesn't seem to mind noise. s/he is in my dining room, which started out as the quietest room in the house and has now moved onto the noisiest. Either s/he is just not picky, or really chill, or just got used to the noise. I do still try to keep the noise down low, but I live with a husband who loves his subwoofer, and two young sons who are loud and rambunctious. So I don't know, I'm sure the others here with way more experience will weigh in.

[mues155]

I know that Lovebird chirp all to well but I see no problem in having him in the same room.
They cant hear at all and I cant imagine the high pitched lovebird chirp making much vibration in the entire room.
Try it out and if you see any problems with his behavior then move him to a different room. I doubt it would effect him much at all.

The problem I can see is actually for your birds safety. Some bacteria from either the snake or its feces could be passed to your fragile birds. Just take care to make the snakes area as clean as possible and ALWAYS wash your hands if handling the snake or his accessories.

[ThePiedPython]

That's great. Thanks for the replies

[mues155]

Your welcome and good luck! Make sure you post pictures for us when your get your new BP!

[Yaqcubper]

My BP is in my room (it wasn't the quietest room but my apartment has no central air and we have our A/C running in our living room almost every night so we figured the room would be a better choice).

Me and the husband watch movies all the time and both put the volume up pretty high and so far she doesn't seem bothered by it. She even is active at night whether we have the TV light on or not so hopefully your snake won't be bothered by it either

[Kaball]

They don't have ears!

[mattchibi]

Its just the heavy bass sounds from subwoofers you have to be careful of. And even so, the volume has to be loud enough to pass vibrations from speaker to your snakes tank. Occasional loud noise may be acceptable; however, constant loud low bass sounds will indefinitely make your snakes life a living hell. I think you should be ok, in terms of noise, in housing your snake in the same room as your birds.

Cheers

[loonunit]

Yeah, I think the hand-washing advice is good, and you should probably apply it both ways: never switch from the birds to the snake without a good scrubbing, or vice versa.

I've never noticed anything about noise. I have two dogs, one of them is fairly barky, and we live next to a train track. The ball pythons go on and off feed seasonally, and yours probably will too, but it doesn't seem related to noise at all.

They don't like a lot of motion right next to the tank, and most of them wait until the lights go off for the night to come out of hiding. But that also doesn't seem to affect appetite. It does make them much easier to feed in the evening vs. morning or afternoon, but that's it.