Bud the Normal

There's not usually much to update on for this guy.

I posted a thread concerning his health last year, when he fasted for 3-4 months and lost ~13% of his weight. He's been eating weekly regularly since September, with his last couple of feedings being 14 days. He is still slowly gaining weight back, and as of the end of January, he still hasn't reached 1,300 grams. His normal weight is 1,380 grams. He ended his fast at 1,198 grams.

Here are few of those rare shots of him, from last month.

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Pretty snake. He has a nice, clean pattern.

that's a nice looking boy. glad to hear he is back on track and eating again. :gj:

Yeah he eats well when he is eating, but unfortunately he's really sensitive to stress so he goes on fasts rather often. :( He's also picky about his food sometimes. He's a pain but he's been with me for a long time so I gueeeess he's here to stay. Haha


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Looks like Bud is in shed. He's been in his PVC enclosure for awhile now, I've dialed in the temps, but the humidity is still off the walls, I've let the bedding dry but there's still condensation and dusty EcoEarth is no good. So, I'm thinking of switching him to aspen once he sheds, and currently a little over half the bedding is aspen to try to bring down the humidity but I'm leaving a bit of EE to make sure he has enough humidity to shed. Although the heat from River's cage (he's stacked on top of her's) isn't making it hot in his enclosure (it's 80-85F on the bottom half and 85-90F on his basking shelf) since I've lowered the temps, the heat is enough to evaporate the water in the bedding, which is why I'm getting condensation in his enclosure and not her's.

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The flash wiped out most of the pink in his belly.

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He's also borrowing one of Cloud's hides while I wait to get him his own. I'll be looking to see if LLL or Reptile Basics is in stock again this weekend.

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Bud is deep in blue now, and his and River's hides finally came in! I'm going to weigh him once he sheds, he looks like he's finally getting back to a normal weight, but I won't know until I get him on the scale.

Here you can see how I've split up the bedding, switching out aspen on one end has helped the humidity tremendously!

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Bud came in at 1,332 grams before his last meal, so he's nearly back up to weight. Now that he's done shedding, he's gone back to using his basking shelf and exploring at night.

All I've got are medium rats, but if he takes one of them I'll order him small rats. The mediums aren't physically too big for him, but they seem to be too much food for him to eat regularly as he was only eating every 2 months of his own choice when I was feeding him mediums before.

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Wow! He's really a handsome fellow. You should consider breeding him. Bet he would make some fantastic hatchlings with whatever you pair him to. Congrats.

I don't even know his sex for sure. Lol The lack of hemipenal sheaths on his sheds and his stumpy tail make me think he's a she.

I don't really have any interest in breeding him. One ball python is enough for me, I don't really want any more. Lol


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Great looking classic fella you have there!