New Baby Ball Python!

Just got home from Repticon today, and I picked up a 2 month old, 110 gram lesser pastel male! He was super inquisitive on the ride home, I bet he didn't like being in the tub! When I handled him he was active, crawling over me and investigating other things. I have a 14 qt sterilite tub, with a Hobbystat thermostat and two nice hides, as well as a good-sized water bowl and a cardboard tube. The temps on the cold side are 76, and the warm side is at 92! The humidity is currently at 71! I'm using paper towels as substrate. I just wanna make sure everything is set, the tub is locked tightly and I have plenty of air holes!

After I just had put him in his new tub, I forgot I needed to adjust the probe and I lifted him out so I could fix it, and when I put him back in he bit me! This is my first snake, and I was a little afraid of biting me, but in reality, it wasn't as a big deal as I thought! It felt like someone barely flicked my hand, and it was so fast! I have two teeny little marks on my hands, but I'm more amused than afraid. I'll start to handle him in a week, after I feed him and he settles down a bit more. He seems like a really friendly snake, he really does! I could understand why he bit me, and I saw that he went in the "s" position before he struck. Now hes settled down and relaxing in his warm hide, poor thing has been though a lot today.

Hes gorgeous and I still have yet to decide a name for him, probably when I get to handle him more :)

Any advice on keeping my new snake for the first week? Also! How should I go about handling him? I wouldn't want to startle him again. I've done all my reasearch, I just wanna know how I should go about his first few weeks in his new home. Thanks! I'll post pictures of him later.

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Originally Posted by ferocix

Just got home from Repticon today, and I picked up a 2 month old, 110 gram lesser pastel male!

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CONGRATS! Mind if I ask which vendor you got him from?

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Originally Posted by ferocix

Any advice on keeping my new snake for the first week? Also! How should I go about handling him?

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The best advice I can give you is to make sure you get him eating consistently for you before handling him. This means that he eats at least three meals in a row for you without a single refusal (if he refuses, start counting again at zero) before moving him for any reason other than to do quick cleaning and other small maintenance tasks. That'll give him a couple of weeks to get settled in while you're still getting your BP fix by hanging out with us on here. :)

Good luck with him!

Best regards,
Eric

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Originally Posted by Eric Alan

CONGRATS! Mind if I ask which vendor you got him from?
The best advice I can give you is to make sure you get him eating consistently for you before handling him. This means that he eats at least three meals in a row for you without a single refusal (if he refuses, start counting again at zero) before moving him for any reason other than to do quick cleaning and other small maintenance tasks. That'll give him a couple of weeks to get settled in while you're still getting your BP fix by hanging out with us on here. :)

Good luck with him!

Best regards,
Eric

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I got him from C&H Exotic Morphs! I also picked up a Cinnamon possible het ghost female for my friend :) Also thanks for the advice! I'll be sure to get him going on food before I handle him again, I got about 25 f/t rat pups from the expo to feed to him!

Ha! Curt's awesome. He's absolutely one of the good guys. I was contemplating recommending him to you as someone to look for there, but it looks like you just read my mind instead. If you haven't already, there's a good local FB group that you can join if you'd like. Curt and I are on there along with a ton of other local owners/breeders. PM me if you're interested in that at all.

http://i.imgur.com/YLB3AMh.jpg

Here's a pic of him in his container on the drive home. Hopefully I can get some better pictures soon! He's super pretty, especially in the sunlight :)

And don't worry too much about him biting you. Babies are nippy and most grow out of it. Just do as Eric suggested and you'll be fine. Nice looking lesser!

Beautiful lesser!


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