Dehydrated ball python update.

I posted a few weeks back as a new snake owner who was struggling a bit with getting the enclosure set up right with proper heat and humidity and the lack of a good digital thermometer/hydrometer which caused my snake to look extremely thin. At that time I thought it was THIN and was worrying about getting it to eat. Since then I've fixed up the temps and humidity and over all the enclousre is 100% better which resulted in a dehydrated snake doing a 100% turn around. And since then he has also eaten twice, mice frozen thawed! I really just want to thank everyone who gave me advice on here and especially want to thank LLLreptile for reaching out to me before I contacted them. So thank you!! My snake is good and healthy now. Here are some of the before and after pics of Sinatra

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and here are the after pics

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Sweet looking much better, just wait till he's taken like 20 mice and starts getting some meat on them bones!!!

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nice turn around!

looking so much better, try offering rats.

I wouldn't offer anything different until the little guy gets a good few meals in him. Wait till he gets a decent weight then offer rats.

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Originally Posted by Alx

I posted a few weeks back as a new snake owner who was struggling a bit with getting the enclosure set up right with proper heat and humidity and the lack of a good digital thermometer/hydrometer which caused my snake to look extremely thin. At that time I thought it was THIN and was worrying about getting it to eat. Since then I've fixed up the temps and humidity and over all the enclousre is 100% better which resulted in a dehydrated snake doing a 100% turn around. And since then he has also eaten twice, mice frozen thawed! I really just want to thank everyone who gave me advice on here and especially want to thank LLLreptile for reaching out to me before I contacted them. So thank you!! My snake is good and healthy now. Here are some of the before and after pics of Sinatra



and here are the after pics

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That's wonderful! :) I'm glad he's doing much better! Love your snake's name, BTW.

What an amazing difference!

Looking good. :) Glad he's made the turnaround for you.

Awesome turnaround!! :)

Oh dear! That is quite the turnaround. Good on you!!

Kudos for doing a good job. I like reading updates. It sucks when i read a "help me" thread and there's no info on how the snake is fairing. Makes me wonder if the snake got better or gone to a better place.......thanks for sharing

Awesome job

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Outstanding.

very nice :)

but somehow i cannot believe that this can happen just because of humidity/temps, i am quite sure that he failed to offer the BP a water bowl, or anything to drink.

anyway its good to see a snake recover like that.

Maybe it was already like that when he got it and didnt realized it because the lack of experience.

Good job by the way, and I will try with rats too, at that size when they start eating they`ll get a brick. You`re offering f/t, just make sure the rat is hot when you present it, if it doesnt take it go with the mice, but I think it will.

Good luck, and keep updating!!

Wow, he looked terrible! I'm glad you have him eating and doing better!

Thank you everyone for all your comments! And for the person who mentioned that he wasn't offered any water, he was as you can see the water bowl in the tank on the before pics. He might have been a bit thin when I got him but his body didn't look sunken in like in the pictures. And from what LLLreptile said when they commented on my first post on here he was fed about a week before he was shipped. Believe it or not he started looking that badly within about 2 days of having him. The problem was that I didn't have a digital thermometer and I relied on the cheap plastic petco one which always read very low so as a paranoid worried owner I would always think it was too cold. I had the heating pad and a 100 watt CHE over the hot spot, and a 70 watt red bulb over the cold side. The low reading on the plastic thermometer and really cold mornings had me thinking I Had to keep the heat up, I beleive that's why he got so dehydrated. After I got a digital thermometer/hydrometer with a probe for the hot spot and was soaking him, he looked better day by day. And on a side not he was also shedding at the time not sure if that had an effect on making him look worse or not. But thanks you again everyone!

So glad to see this guy again, I was really worried about him for a while :sweeet:

congratulations... much better

Congrats! He's a beauty! On a side note, where did you get that center climb???:)

You did a great job thank you for saving his life. And I think he's gonna be spoiled..

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You did a great job thank you for saving his life. And I think he's gonna be spoiled..

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A lot of credit should also go to FireStorm who was the first and only one who recognised that the snake was dehydrated due to overheating and also suggested soaking the snake for 15 minutes - both points saved the little guys life I'd say . Sadly FireStorm doesn't seem to post in here these days .

Here's their post .

Looking at your other thread, I'm more and more convinced that dehydration is part, if not most, of your problem. If you are using that stick on dial to measure temps, and that is reading 90F, your tank is probably too hot, especially given that you have two lamps and a UTH running. The dial is a few inches above the substrate, not on the substrate where the snake actually is. So, I would recommend getting either a thermometer with a probe or a temp gun ASAP. I would also suggest a soak in lukewarm (80-85F) water. I'd put water in a shoebox tub so that it comes about halfway up the snake's side (you don't want him to have to swim). Put him in the shoebox, and leave him for about 15-20min.

By all means Thanks to Firestorm also.

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Congrats! He's a beauty! On a side note, where did you get that center climb???:)

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Thank you so much for posting an update.

So happy he's doing better. Thanks for the update.

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Thank you so much for posting an update.

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Originally Posted by DellaF

So happy he's doing better. Thanks for the update.

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What are yall seeing that I am not????
This post is from 2014

Lol! I think I've had to much Coconut Rum.

Lol this is to funny Im going to drink a Shot of Fireball to celebrate. ...

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cinnamon tequilla~

that should be a morph name honestly

To Funny

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