Poll: Senior/Geriatric Ball Pythons: How old is your oldest BP?

I always hear that ball pythons can live for 10-20 years...but I have yet to see a 20 year old ball python. How old are/were your oldest snakes, and say a bit about the husbandry of your senior pythons. Do they require special care? Slow down over time? Take longer naps? Gum their food? ;) Etc., etc.

I have had my poss het albino female(sold as 100% but no paperwork) for 8 years. Don't know how old she was when I bought her. She will getting breed once I hatch out at albino black Pastel to see if I really did get a 100% het.

My big ole lady is 9 years old... :)

my oldest is a male normal that is 11 and my little brother has a normal female he got when i was 17 which would make her 18 yrs old now. both still act just like always no gumming food or crawling with a cane lol.

Somebody on here has one that I want say is like 18. My oldest is about six. We were "told" how old he was when we got him, but who knows for sure.

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This Female is 7 years Old, my first Normal, known to take Large retired female rats once in awhile LOL

The albino we have that just dropped 9 eggs for us 2 years in a row was hatched in Early 2002

I have a female that is 13-14 yrs old. I got her from someone on craigslist that had her since she was a baby, and they had her for 12 yrs.

My friends had a BP for 16 years, then gave her to me last summer - she turned 17 sometime in June. She's occasionally seen slithering at a snails pace, but other than being slow and calm, she shows no signs of age :)

One of my old science teachers had a male normal that he claimed was 20 years old. Biggest male I ever saw, and the best temperament to boot!

My big girl is 10 years old. Rescued her from a local family that had been under feeding her most of her life so she wouldn't grow to fast.. She's about 2200grams now


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Hi I just joined this forum. i was looking up info to find out what happens as BP’s get older. The one I take care of is 20+ years old. I can't
remember exactly when I got him but before I graduated school in 1994. He is fine. I have not noticed much change in his demeanor.
Now that my life has calmed down though, I have more time to let him out for supervised crawls around the room. Kid tame, nice snake that I am proud of. I did not realize that people feed them rats. Mine has been getting a mouse a week forever except for the occasions he does not want to eat. He is about 5 feet long.