First off, I am fairly new to this site and also being a ball python owner. I have only owned Fibonacci for about two months, but being a science teacher (and now the snake owning science teacher) has led me to owning a second ball python. An ad on Craigslist was brought to my attention about a couple that just had a baby and the Mom refused to allow the Father to keep his six month to a year old BP. This was one of those "sell it by tonight or we are going to euthanize it" kind of situations. I contacted them and let them know a little bit about myself and said that I could take the snake but was not in a position to purchase it since the end of summer is a tight time as a teacher.
Long story short: I now own my second ball python and it is rather thin.
I don't have a scale here at home, but this one is rather skinny (more of a triangular shaped body). There is no UTH or heating device of any kind and it is in a 20g long tank. There is one hide, two climbing branches and two water containers (one large and one small glass bowls). Both water containers were dry as a bone and one was filled with substrate that had been wet and one point and dried in one clump the form of the bowl. There were two shed skins that seemed fairly intact, but were crumpled and dried. There were more than half a dozen pieces of waste strung about the cage. There was also one pretty dried up f/t medium mouse that I was told to having been in there for three days.
As soon as I got him home, I rearranged the tank slightly so that the hide was functioning and not flipped upside-down. I also filled blew out and filled both water dishes. I will be purchasing what is needed tomorrow, but I want to make sure I am not missing something. Thanks in advance for any help.