Hello from CT

Nice little forum you all have here! I'm a member of all kinds of forums, mainly automotive related... but I just picked up some ball pythons so I figured it was time to join a forum :). Don't get me wrong I did research ahead of time, and I have owned other reptiles in the past.

My snakes are both normals - one is a 2010 CB male, still trying to think of a name for him! The other I adopted so I'm not sure about age or sex (came with the name Monty, so hopefully male lol).

When I picked Monty up, his enclosure was somewhat dismal. Lots of pet store stuff for him to climb on, but they were using a Sunbeam heating pad inside the cage for warmth, and there was no substrate at all. Judging by the tiny bits of skin everywhere, he was having a very hard time shedding... probably due to the utter lack of humidity. He ate a f/t mouse the night we got him home, and after a few warm water soaks he completed his shed last night. I had to help him with one of the eye caps, he's so tame he sat perfectly still in my hand while I gently dabbed the eye cap off with a moist q-tip! I was almost expecting to get snapped at, I can't think of many animals who will sit around and let you poke them in the eye!

I hope to be around here for quite a while, eventually when I buy my own home I would like to get into breeding morphs. A pair of male normals isn't the best way to get started I suppose, but oh well :). As I said above I have owned several reptiles in the past, including Anoles, a Green Iguana, and snapping turtles. Currently, I also have a ~20 year old 3-toed box turtle whom I adopted last year.

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the new additions!

Welcome to BP.net :)

Welcome to the forum. have fun with those bps. I am in ct as well

:welcome: to BP.net!!!

welcome to the addiction, i mean forum. :) good job with that stuck shed and eye cap. a lot of people wouldnt have known what to do. where in CT are u? im from MA on the border of suffield. check out the Northeast section, some of us are getting together at a show if ur interested

Thanks for all the welcomes!

I built a home made rheostat last night with a $5 rotary dimmer, a $2 electrical box, and a $3 plug strip. 600w capacity with a nice 240 degree sweep... should be more precise than the tiny slider ones :). Previously I temporarily had the heat pads connected to a timer which cycled them on and off every 15 minutes. Believe it or not this actually worked quite well, the substrate surface temps cycled between ~90 and ~95.

Hello. Glad to see you could make it. We've been expecting you for some time now.

Jim Smith

Hello, and :welcome: to BP.net...

Where in CT are you from?