BPs and musking?

Hi, everyone. My BP, Honey, has just reached two years of age. I googled this trying to find out what was up and couldn't find much info other than people bickering over whether or not musking happens in BPs... I came home last night and the room he is in, all of a sudden, REEKED like never before!

I looked in his tank to see what was going on, and the entire right third of it was soaking wet and reekity reeky REEKED. He seemed agitated and was doing his usual pre-feed calisthenics. Anyone know what's going on here? I've never seen him 'pee' so much and smell so bad! D:

FTR, I took him out to feed, looked at him, he seems just fine.

I've never heard of a bp musking before...I honestly have no idea and all I can say is I hope it isn't something serious. If you cannot find help here I would suggest a vet or at least calling one (herp vet)...they can at least tell you if something bad is wrong or not.

Hmm? I'd call a vet. Did you clean it out? Sure it wasn't poop or regurgitated food?

I don't think a vet is needed. It was probably just a large pee. They do sometimes pee quite a bit. And yes, it is stinky.

If it looked like pee and it smelled like pee, then it was probably pee.

Once in a blue moon one of my pythons will turn his or her tub into a veritable SWAMP.

They invariably choose to do this .02 seconds before I'm supposed to leave for a week, so instead of being on time, I end up perpetually late since I have to stop, dump all the nasty bedding, sanitize the tub and wipe it dry, put in new bedding and put the snake back before I can leave. :D

Their sense of timing is impeccable. ;)

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Originally Posted by Kyle@theHeathertoft

Once in a blue moon one of my pythons will turn his or her tub into a veritable SWAMP.

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Oh yea .. in fact my BP did that last night .. I've never seen that before .. I know how "wet" the tub is when she had a pee etc., but this time she was almost swimming in pee .. And yes, the smell is ... well, let's not go there ....

Ball Pythons DO musk. I don't see where the bickering comes from. Every WC adult female I have musks every year when I bathe them after egg laying. I have a few CH and even a couple of very pissy females that will musk when surprised as well. If you watch them closely, the evert their scent glands and discharge a very brownish green, yogurt consistency, fluid. If you get it on you (which I always do because they seem to thrash when they are doing this), it will stick with you for a good 6-8 hours minimum.