Ball Python is too active! Help !

My ball python will come out in the morning and wander around his tank. He sometimes even hits his head but he still wanders around. Later on the day he'll just go in and hide. He recently did eat really well yesterday so i don't think he's stressed since ball pythons in general wont eat when stressed. He still seems healthy. But why might he be wandering aroound like this? I'm worried cause he does hit his head and twist his neck alot. He is a bumble bee ball phython and i think he might have wobble head, do to the way he moves his head. Should i be concerned? what can i do about this?

An over active Royal / Ball python COULD be too HOT and is simply trying to get somewhere cool .....


What are you using to take the surface temps on the warm side ??





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Good call, Zincubus! That would be my guess as well...

Too warm, too stressed, too new of an enclosure, too hungry... A stressed snake is a snake looking for a place to be less stressed. If they get too hot they will look for a cooler spot but if the entire enclosure is too hot then they have no place to go. If they don't have the tank setup so they feel safe and secure they can try and get out to find a secure place.

If everything is on point but you changed something recently even if a new substrate, that can trigger it. Any time I swap out substrate in any of my snakes they go for a roam as if to check the change in smell and to see if anything was stolen.
Food related movement is often later in the evening for nocturnal snakes like ball pythons so during the day is often them not feeling safe in their burrow.

Well, there could be so many reasons for this.

Until you give us some more information, it will be difficult to even guess at the problem.

Please describe his setup. Glass tank? Cage? Tub? How big? What are the temps, humidity? What is the temp gradient? Are there hides on both sides?

Actually, the best would be if you could post a picture of the setup, and then describe temps and how you heat it and what the humidity is.

Restlessness right after a feeding can sometimes be attributed to still being hungry, still being in feeding mode. So does he do that all the time? Or only after eating?

Need more info :)