First Time Owner - BP won't leave hide

I think everyone will have their own experience and honestly every animal is different. We have a few pythons and Samara loves to climb and she is never in a hide box, while Sahara prefers to hide 95% of the time. They both stay in the same habitat. As long as your snake is eating, I would not stress over it and remember your most likely giving your snake a better environment than who he /she had at Petsmart. :snake:

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Originally Posted by Samara

I think everyone will have their own experience and honestly every animal is different. We have a few pythons and Samara loves to climb and she is never in a hide box, while Sahara prefers to hide 95% of the time. They both stay in the same habitat. As long as your snake is eating, I would not stress over it and remember your most likely giving your snake a better environment than who he /she had at Petsmart. :snake:

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Really not a good idea to keep them in the same tank:colbert:

Ditch the overhead lights and get underbelly heating.

I don't know where people got the idea that ball pythons and heat lamps go together. They are a nocturnal species and mainly terrestrial (meaning not climbing much), so they utilize belly heat more than overhead basking.

And yes, a happy ball is a hiding ball, but they do come out and explore/hunt. They're more likely to do this when it's not bright.

I had the exact same issue. I was going to post the same thing yesterday but decided to wait to see if she ate today. When I went to check her temp this morning she was halfway into her shed. Everything is cool now.

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Originally Posted by Jeo123

Really not a good idea to keep them in the same tank:colbert:

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It is safe to have them in the same tank. What you may do with your snakes is up to you. We have the enough education to know what we are doing. Here is a news flash, Pythons in the wild live near one another. They also do not live in a 20-50 gallon tanks. They do not get breed to make morphs.:colbert: