Dehydrated ball python update.

Kudos for doing a good job. I like reading updates. It sucks when i read a "help me" thread and there's no info on how the snake is fairing. Makes me wonder if the snake got better or gone to a better place.......thanks for sharing

Awesome job

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Outstanding.

very nice :)

but somehow i cannot believe that this can happen just because of humidity/temps, i am quite sure that he failed to offer the BP a water bowl, or anything to drink.

anyway its good to see a snake recover like that.

Maybe it was already like that when he got it and didnt realized it because the lack of experience.

Good job by the way, and I will try with rats too, at that size when they start eating they`ll get a brick. You`re offering f/t, just make sure the rat is hot when you present it, if it doesnt take it go with the mice, but I think it will.

Good luck, and keep updating!!

Wow, he looked terrible! I'm glad you have him eating and doing better!

Thank you everyone for all your comments! And for the person who mentioned that he wasn't offered any water, he was as you can see the water bowl in the tank on the before pics. He might have been a bit thin when I got him but his body didn't look sunken in like in the pictures. And from what LLLreptile said when they commented on my first post on here he was fed about a week before he was shipped. Believe it or not he started looking that badly within about 2 days of having him. The problem was that I didn't have a digital thermometer and I relied on the cheap plastic petco one which always read very low so as a paranoid worried owner I would always think it was too cold. I had the heating pad and a 100 watt CHE over the hot spot, and a 70 watt red bulb over the cold side. The low reading on the plastic thermometer and really cold mornings had me thinking I Had to keep the heat up, I beleive that's why he got so dehydrated. After I got a digital thermometer/hydrometer with a probe for the hot spot and was soaking him, he looked better day by day. And on a side not he was also shedding at the time not sure if that had an effect on making him look worse or not. But thanks you again everyone!

So glad to see this guy again, I was really worried about him for a while :sweeet:

congratulations... much better

Congrats! He's a beauty! On a side note, where did you get that center climb???:)