Ball Python Wont Stop Trying To Escape
Within the past week or two my ball python has started to exhibit some very odd behavior. He is constantly trying to escape his enclosure. I have never seen this before with him and I can't think of any problems. The husbandry is about perfect, 90 on the warm, and a decent humidity (typically 60 but fluctuates to 70). He lives in an appropriately sized plastic bin on paper towels with 2 hides, a half log that he normally loves, a water dish, and 4 fake leaves. This behavior just started so suddenly and violently. The other day he almost knocked over his water dish while trying to shove the corner lid open. He is also awake more frequently and earlier. Just for more information he did go through about a 6 month hunger strike with some unusual stools but I took him to the vet and they didn't seem to concerned. Thank you for help in advance, I'm just really worried he's going to hurt himself, his nose is starting to get red and with the force that he is pushing it almost looks like his neck is going to break.
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My 12yo male does this at some point every year, usually in conjunction with going off of feeding. He’s currently in this mode and has recently resumed feeding after a 3-4 month fast, but still roaming and pushing and rarely using his hides. I gave up on trying to figure him out years ago and just let him do his thing anymore.
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He has had some unusual stools. I took some photos but deleted them after they returned to normal. He does have 2 hides, one on the warm, one on the cold. He just really likes the half log, he'll rest his head on it and take a nap. He's 3 years old and went back to eating food after the hunger strike. The only main difference I noticed was he no longer strikes the rat from my tongs. He'll only take it if I leave it there and let him eat it on his own time.
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Sounds like puberty to me. 😀
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Does it need a bigger enclosure? Can it fully stretch out in an L shape?
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It’s already been mentioned above ..
When they are determined to try to escape my first thought is to check the surface temps with a digital temp gun at the cool end as if they’re too warm then presumably the warm end will be FAR too warm.
It’s happened to me twice in all my time keeping snakes and both times it was faulty stats that had failed leaving the heat on constantly !
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