Total Newb here!!

Less active is a good sign usually. The water on the stuck sheds was good advice. That was probably caused by not enough humidity during the last shed cycle. Personally with my BP when I bought her I found out what day of the week she was used to being fed and I just went with that and it worked for me. Find out exactly what the pet shop was feeding her and feed that for at least the first feeding so you know how it is doing. Later once you know it is eating you can switch to the feeding method of your choice. So if they where feeding live then feed live the first time. if they fed frozen/thawed then do that. When I bought mine I went so far as to buy a couple of the very same mice that she would have been fed had she stayed in the pet store on the day i brought her home.

Some others will say wait a week before feeding some will say it doesn't matter. That's what I did and it worked for me.

Congrats on your first BP. It sounds as though the previous posters got you going in the right direction.

Congrats!! Definitely invest in one of those temp guns (unless you want two digital thermometers in the tank). Do you have a hygrometer?
Also, MORE HIDES! :) There is definitely room for tonnes of hides - and fake foliage - and whatnot. You should have at least two (one for the warm side, one for the cold side). Many people don't like those half logs, as they don't provide much security, since both ends are wide open. That being said, out of the 5 hides + in my BPs 15 gal tank, he prefers the log.
You don't have to spend a lot of money on that either. If you prefer a more natural looking tank, you can buy faux rock hides and whatnot. If it doesn't bother you, you can cut and sand down holes in containers, cardboard boxes, (clean) coffee cups, etc. I would think you could easily fit 3-4 hides in there though. Clutter it up!!

:) Good luck!

I don't think this has been brought up, but do you have a thermostat? In your first post, you mentioned having two, but I think you may have that confused with a thermometer.

He's been chillin in the same corner as shown on the picture for the past couple hours. He poked his head up and looked at the water, then went back to being in a ball. He seems to like sitting in the light, which surprised me a lot, I just figured he was cold. Will make some more make shift hides for now. Plan on making the tank look much nicer next pay check, and I heard adding live plants can be really nice to, so I plan on looking into that as well. I will also call the pet store tomorrow and find out when they normally fed him. Best idea I've heard in regards to that, thanks! I don't really know the best way of feeding frozen (which is what the store was doing) so I will have to look that up as well. You are all so helpful, thank you!!!

When I had my girl in a tank I used a couple fake logs that where meant for an aquarium. One was typical log and the other was a stump that had a couple smaller holes so she could really hide. I used a dremal tool to cut out the bottoms as best as I could to get her out when I needed. I also picked up a couple fake plants and hot glued them to the logs so she had something to climb threw. She got big enough that I couldn't get her out on demand so I retired them for her safety buy she loved them. The plants I cut free and they lay in her tub now. I place them on both sides and she burrows in to the aspen bedding under them so it makes a hide in the tub. She seems to like that a lot.

Just use your imagination while walking threw different stores.

Hey great ball python and also i would say to not use the half log because they really dont like two open sides like that they dont feel secure i would recomend the exo tera cave hide realy best hide their is from ball pythons and really inexpensive to i bought mine for like $5 or $6 but congratulations on your new bp and enjoy cause their awesome snakes :)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

Congrats! Actually I would put a hide directly over the Uth... and cut down a bit on the substrate... I doubt much heat is actually getting to the top of the substrate.

Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 4