a few observations

so a couple things ive observed while keeping ball pythons for the last 9 years:
ball pythons seem to be semi-arboreal, especially juveniles. idk how far they'd venture up a tree in the wild but in captivity they do climb and hang out on branches so im not so sure these 6 in. tall rubbermaids in "racks" are the best. i think they could and would utilize a bush to hunt from. i have a good picture supporting this. ill see if i can post it later.

also, they're very gentle snakes. even to other snakes. ive recently been forced to house a hatchling(a rescue of sorts) with an adult bp and the two seem to keep to their own. the bigger snake doesnt try to assert dominance, although i do place bark to where the hatchling can squeeze places the adult cant. needless to say the hatchling hasnt been eaten in the last few months.

Did you qt the rescue?
You shouldn't be housing bps together, unless you have a lot of reptile experience. But even then, I'd want the snakes to be equally sized.

And bps have been known to catch birds. I've seen skip talk about it before

Thank you for your observation, I'm sure your long experience has shown you many subtle aspects of captive ball pythons.


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I have seen mine tag a rat from her branch setup but I didn't get a pic til after the kill.

i have a hatchling thats eaten a hummingbird (with the beak cut off) when times were hard and i had to hunt food for the snakes. lol

Um ..
What..

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Originally Posted by mr~python

i have a hatchling thats eaten a hummingbird (with the beak cut off) when times were hard and i had to hunt food for the snakes. lol

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that's so metal.

hella met-tull

i cut the beak off the hummingbird so it wouldnt lacerate the asaphagos ofcourse.

Troll much

what are you talking about? im trying to give legitimate information about the fact that keeping ball pythons is not a regimented process of 75 cool 85 warm, 60% humidity, tupperware container, blah blah blah. this is a living breathing predatory reptile were talking here.