best time of day to handle

mornings, afternoons or evenings?

For ball pythons later at night is better as they are nocturnal snakes.

Dusk onwards, although I pick mine up all times of the day if they need to be cleaned out. They dont seem to get stressed out or anything.

I pick mine up whenever I want to.

That being said, I don't over handle my animals. The most they are out is one to two times per week for about 10-15 minutes.

I take mine out sometimes during the day and sometimes during the evening. I don't think being taken out during the day would stress most BPs out enough to make them stop eating.

However if I do add a snake that is refusing food often I try to minimize taking them out until they start eating on a normal schedule.

I never take mines out :salute:

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Originally Posted by f4n70m

I never take mines out :salute:

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Their cage must be pretty dirty then.

I take mine out whenever I want or need to. Most of the time it's during the day, but if their cage is dirty it gets cleaned whenever I see it. And that I take them out for.

Taking them out a couple of times a week is okay. Seems like the longer you've done this, the less stressful they become.

Jim Smith

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Originally Posted by Elise.m

Their cage must be pretty dirty then.

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Nope clean as a whistle :)

Son holds bp, cleans bp :)

I have my boa. I do have the bp but he does everything lol

i take my BPs out when i clean. i just quickly look over their bodies to make sure they didnt get into their poopie -_-... it only happened once to my spider, and a nice warm bath fixed it up =]. anytime i check them out, i check their bellies, their faces / heads, and vents to make sure nothings out of the ordinary :salute: