my ball python died what happend

If he was soaking alot you may have over heated him or come from parasites like mites they will dehydate him and with the bulb too that may have done it. i am sorry for your lose.:tears:

well to anwser where did i get him from i got him at pet smart first time buying any snake there i mostly go to the local breeder near me but i just didnt have the money at the time so i went to pet smart but i will put a link up of where i get all my snakes

the web site isnt for buying anything more for info the store on the other hand if u love snakes u would love to go there.. www.thezoollc.com

sorry for your loss, that is definitely difficult. In regards to buying snakes from breeders vs. petco, guessing it might have been a normal, you can definitely get one from a breeder at a much cheaper price. If you say that you have a local breeder, I would check there next!

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Sorry for your loss. It sounds like everything is correct husbandry wise. Why not try getting a thermometer gun so that you can take exact readings of the different sides of the tank on the substrate where the snake actually came into contact with the ground? I love mine!

From my experience, it sounds like he had a problem from the start, that maybe just wasn't obvious to you. Ball pythons are pretty hardy animals, and even if your husbandry was a little less than perfect, I don't think it was enough in and of itself to kill your animal. I've made worse husbandry mistakes as I've gotten better at this over the years, and my two oldest animals, Bryan and Kay, are still alive and with us 8 years later. They have survived through poor attention to both temperature and humidity early on, until I found some good websites that helped me understand what I needed to correct, and how. I got the temperature issues corrected early on, but I have to admit that dry conditions persisted for quite a while. That and for a while I thought it was just typical for ball pythons to have bad sheds. Needless to say it took me a while to get it right. On top of that, Kay came from a situation of total neglect before I took her in. She is a very healthy animal now and is a reliable breeder.

Not saying that they can't get sick from bad husbandry, because they certainly can - I did lose my very first one in 2005 (had him 3 years) to a URI which was almost certainly caused by temps being too cold. But no longer than you've had yours, I do think something else had to be going on for him to go downhill that quickly.