Snake Not Eating and Getting Thin! Help!

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Originally Posted by Jasonx

what about tank aggression?

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It doesn't exist with ball pythons.

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Originally Posted by Jasonx

what about tank aggression?

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No such thing. 9 out of 10 of my snakes I can reach in at any given time and not get bit, the 10th one is a satanic turd, but it has nothing to do with me feeding him in his enclosure. If you smell like a rat, then you'd get bit.

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Originally Posted by LGray23

No such thing. 9 out of 10 of my snakes I can reach in at any given time and not get bit, the 10th one is a satanic turd, but it has nothing to do with me feeding him in his enclosure. If you smell like a rat, then you'd get bit.

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oh ok, well my aunt has one and she feeds in the tank, and says hers is sometimes nippy if she goes to get him . just asking thanks for the reassurence

I will say I disagree with it being genetics, it most likely has to do with how the breeder fed or raised the babies. Like AK907 had problems, it was probably because the guy had no idea what he was doing, how to present food to picky babies, or had his husbandry allll wrong, causing them to completely stress, not eat, and then never want to eat. It can happen.

Also, for the OP's situation, for both of your snakes - the female was probably not fed often enough, and the male was probably fed something you aren't feeding or maybe he just is a picky snake.

A "enclosure aggressive" ball python most of the time will be due to hunger or you smell like a rat, maybe both :P

I would also feed in the enclosure, but if he won't eat there, he won't eat there.

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

It doesn't exist with ball pythons.

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thanks :gj: