A bit of a rescue story

[Sniffle]

A couple months or so ago now, my wife told me she had a lady who desperately needed to rehome her snake and gecko. It was a bad marital ending, power had been cut to the house, and there was snow on the ground. We weren't going to have to pay for anything so I said yes thats fine we're both suckers for animals and at one point had 8 ferrets.

Meet Dresden, our 3.5ft long California king snake.


And Adalyn our Giant striped temper leopard gecko


This was out first snake and gecko...

My wife has been on a reptile binge since summer, and this opportunity sent her over the edge. So for Christmas I got her a corn snake that she fell in love with.

So this is Penelope, we're working on figuring out the morph but it's some type of albino.



My oldest son fell in love(and named) Adalyn the gecko, as a treat to him and for my wife's birthday, as that's what she wanted for her birthday, we went to our local Repticon and ended up coming home with nugget.

This is Nugget the gecko, A super giant blood gecko


So this brings us this past Mon/Tues, we ran to the local petco for some crickets for the geckos and while there I noticed they had their "fancy" ball python(99% sure she's a normal) for 50% off and then the girl walked up and said they would sell her for 75% off because she had been there so long. Their cresties are also 50% off... anyway... we pulled her out of the cage, and she's super chill, and I noticed she had a sore on her head. They chose to offer her to us as a free adoption, and we just happened to have a spare tank. It's an addiction lol.

This is our nameless supposed to be female ball python.


And her sore


I've been fighting with her tank to get the heat and humidity up to par. The tank is what our leopard gecko adalyn used to be housed in before we swapped her to a 20 long, I believe it's a 15, or 20 standard, it's too tall. So it's taken 2 heat lamps(1 100W CHE, and a 50W heat bulb) and a UTH, to get temps and humidity where it's needed 88 ambient warm side, 90 inside warm hide, 77 on cool side. 44-60 humidity I spray occasionally. Using a gladware disposable bowl as a hide and have a plant over the top so it is dark and hidden. Ordering some better hides. Have the walls insulated with foam board, and the lid partially covered with foil and foam board for insulation.

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[richardhind1972]

Looks like the corn snake is an amel corn which is a pink albino


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[Sunnieskys]

She needs an identical hide and plant on the cold side as well so she can choose for temp regulation. Are those stuck on gauges? Sticky backs? If they are they need to come out. Nothing sticky every goes into an enclosure. This set up looks pretty good. Add another hide. Does she have an uth? Is it in a thermostat?

[Craiga 01453]

Congrats on your new reptile family.

Are all your heat sources regulated by a thermostat?

Also, you need additional hides, there should be at least 2 for each snake.

You also should remove those sticky thermo/hygrometers. They should also be placed on the ground, where the snake actually stays. No point in measuring temps way up there where the snake never goes.

Congrats and welcome to the forum, we're here to help you and your snakes. Study the basic husbandry stickies as well as the stickies on how to properly set up your enclosure.

Feel free to ask questions.

[Godzilla78]

A couple months or so ago now, my wife told me she had a lady who desperately needed to rehome her snake and gecko. It was a bad marital ending, power had been cut to the house, and there was snow on the ground. We weren't going to have to pay for anything so I said yes thats fine we're both suckers for animals and at one point had 8 ferrets.

Meet Dresden, our 3.5ft long California king snak

And Adalyn our Giant striped temper leopard gecko


This was out first snake and gecko...

My wife has been on a reptile binge since summer, and this opportunity sent her over the edge. So for Christmas I got her a corn snake that she fell in love with.

So this is Penelope, we're working on figuring out the morph but it's some type of albino.



My oldest son fell in love(and named) Adalyn the gecko, as a treat to him and for my wife's birthday, as that's what she wanted for her birthday, we went to our local Repticon and ended up coming home with nugget.

This is Nugget the gecko, A super giant blood gecko


So this brings us this past Mon/Tues, we ran to the local petco for some crickets for the geckos and while there I noticed they had their "fancy" ball python(99% sure she's a normal) for 50% off and then the girl walked up and said they would sell her for 75% off because she had been there so long. Their cresties are also 50% off... anyway... we pulled her out of the cage, and she's super chill, and I noticed she had a sore on her head. They chose to offer her to us as a free adoption, and we just happened to have a spare tank. It's an addiction lol.

This is our nameless supposed to be female ball python.


And her sore


I've been fighting with her tank to get the heat and humidity up to par. The tank is what our leopard gecko adalyn used to be housed in before we swapped her to a 20 long, I believe it's a 15, or 20 standard, it's too tall. So it's taken 2 heat lamps(1 100W CHE, and a 50W heat bulb) and a UTH, to get temps and humidity where it's needed 88 ambient warm side, 90 inside warm hide, 77 on cool side. 44-60 humidity I spray occasionally. Using a gladware disposable bowl as a hide and have a plant over the top so it is dark and hidden. Ordering some better hides. Have the walls insulated with foam board, and the lid partially covered with foil and foam board for insulation.

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like a pretty massifve head wound. I don’t think they feed live, so it must be from something else than a rat bite. Hopefully it heals just fine.

[Sniffle]

She needs an identical hide and plant on the cold side as well so she can choose for temp regulation. Are those stuck on gauges? Sticky backs? If they are they need to come out. Nothing sticky every goes into an enclosure. This set up looks pretty good. Add another hide. Does she have an uth? Is it in a thermostat?

Gauges are magnetic, I have 3d printers.

Working on the hides, I have a non identical in there now pic is old.

Has an uth, regulated by a dimmer until I can get a proper thermostat and heat tape. It's sitting at 90 degrees inside the hide after sitting overnight.

Ball's are such a pain compared to others lol... I want a liytle hoggie now too lol

[MD_Pythons]

Gauges are magnetic, I have 3d printers.

Working on the hides, I have a non identical in there now pic is old.

Has an uth, regulated by a dimmer until I can get a proper thermostat and heat tape. It's sitting at 90 degrees inside the hide after sitting overnight.

Ball's are such a pain compared to others lol... I want a liytle hoggie now too lol

Jump Starts are around $35. They're a good lower cost thermostat.

[MD_Pythons]

I didn't see this mentioned before, but your bp needs to be kept away from your established reptiles. You can read up on the quarantine process here.

[tttaylorrr]

I didn't see this mentioned before, but your bp needs to be kept away from your established reptiles. You can read up on the quarantine process here.

especially since he came from a big box store, which are notorious for selling sick animals.

[Craiga 01453]

Gauges are magnetic, I have 3d printers.

Ball's are such a pain compared to others lol... I want a liytle hoggie now too lol

Ok cool, I would still lower them though to get accurate readings.

And BPs are more difficult husbandry wise than Kings and corns, but once they're set up properly they're very easy. Just monitor your equipment, clean the enclosure as needed, change water as need and enjoy. As long as your setup is good and husbandry is on point you're good.

Hoggies are great too, but if you go that route make sure to get an established eater. They can be very tough to get started.

And yes, I too forgot to make sure your animals are being quarantined, especially coming from a big box store.