Shedding question..

explain to me why my male BP showed the shedding phase with the blue eyes and orange-ish looking belly for the last two days and now when i looked the blue is kind of gone the orange under belly is gone but i see no shed ANYWHERE, he's in a proper container so humidity is where it needs to be..

My bp takes about 2-3 additional days to slough his skin after he clears up.

This should help. Just keep up with the humidity and he should shed in no time.
Http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...edding-Process

After they go blue, ball pythons then "clear up" before the skin is actually shed. My guys usually go blue for 2 days then clear up for 3-5 days before actually shedding

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Originally Posted by MysticMoon001

My bp takes about 2-3 additional days to slough his skin after he clears up.

This should help. Just keep up with the humidity and he should shed in no time.
Http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...edding-Process

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Thank you for your message, very helpful....!!! THANKSSS.... :D;)

My first male BP is taking "all day"<--- meaning a very long time to shed "past' and i want to get ll 4 of my BPs on the same eating schedule...:mad: :D

Getting them on the same feeding schedule shouldn't be very difficult.

Find one day that you wish to feed them on, say Friday for example. If you have one in shed, skip him as you feed the others.

He'll be fine for a week without eating...

Then just every Friday, you feed.

THANKS for the post/url link, problem was solved after i misted him and feeding commenced leter in the day.. Now my female on the other hand refused the feast last night im going to try her again today..

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Originally Posted by ECechoHO

THANKS for the post/url link, problem was solved after i misted him and feeding commenced leter in the day.. Now my female on the other hand refused the feast last night im going to try her again today..

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If they refuse a meal, there's not much of a reason to try again the very next day. Just chalk it up to her not being ready for a meal and try again on the next regularly scheduled feeding day. Offering food too often to a BP that's not eating will likely only add to both your own stress and theirs. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Montypython696

Getting them on the same feeding schedule shouldn't be very difficult.

Find one day that you wish to feed them on, say Friday for example. If you have one in shed, skip him as you feed the others.

He'll be fine for a week without eating...

Then just every Friday, you feed.

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Many will eat in shed, and in case he doesn't. You can just feed him once he sheds and then feed him again on your feeding day. It's ok if you feed again sooner than a week.

Thanks for all the replies, i didn't word my post correctly "schedule" which i forgot to word correctly was meant as "all on the same day" type thing but THANKS for your replies..:D ;)

This is what i meant, MINUS the female of course..!!:D :D

http://vid1172.photobucket.com/album...ps9sxcp821.mp4

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Originally Posted by ECechoHO

THANKS for the post/url link, problem was solved after i misted him and feeding commenced leter in the day.. Now my female on the other hand refused the feast last night im going to try her again today..

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Originally Posted by Eric Alan

If they refuse a meal, there's not much of a reason to try again the very next day. Just chalk it up to her not being ready for a meal and try again on the next regularly scheduled feeding day. Offering food too often to a BP that's not eating will likely only add to both your own stress and theirs. :gj:

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what is your husbandry for the female? sometimes not eating is temp, humidity and enclosure related.

Not to be mean but im not going to get into the enclosure thing, i feed all my snakes in a feeder "tank" with paper towels as substrate as always.. The only thing that is very different is she got ("knocked up"<---excuse my language to the lil "kids" on here) on the 5th of october.. She's weird though, she looks as if she's "building" then when i look at her the next day she's back to her normal size, then building looking and so on.. :mad:.. This is the second week she pulled this "fasting" <----;) thing...

Why do you feed in a separate tank?

There's no issue with feeding in their own enclosure. And taking them out of it, and putting them somewhere else may just stress them out enough to not eat.

Don't want them snapping at me when i put my hand in there to take them out to clean the enclosure, i LOVE putting them around my neck and walk around my apt with (my kids)them... Been doing this since i first got them from 2010-now, no probs like this before, 2 weeks she hasn't eaten...:O Hopefully it is what i think it is and want it to be ;)...

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Originally Posted by ECechoHO

Don't want them snapping at me when i put my hand in there to take them out to clean the enclosure,

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That is a myth. :gj::gj:

that profile pic offends me, now if i disagree with the myth statement are all the band wagoners going to pop up, i been doing good on this site trying to keep the peace between ECechoHOs posts....My male BP snapped at me twice since i had him, so it's NOT a myth...

One hatchling being nippy means nothing. I feed hundreds of ball pythons in their cages and they are never cage aggressive. If food is around they go into feed mode, if there is no food they don't.

The feeding in a separate cage is a myth. One that I bought into when I first started caring for Balls back in 2006. I started feeding them all in their own enclosures 5 or so years ago, since then I've noticed no increase of aggression when doing maintenance. The only increase in aggression I've noticed is during feeding; and with them eating, I don't see a problem in it.

And for the nippy part. You own wild animals. If it has a mouth, you're going to get bit at one point or another, its going to happen. As someone who has a "pregnant" female, you better get used to the nippiness, she's going to display it, as well as any babies you produce. Get used to it.

understood, no arguements just that he wasn't a hatchling when this happened.. I just don't want it happening again, thas all..

All my hatchlings are "fight or flight", that's just nature. They think everything is out to kill them.
Anything else in my collection doesn't care. I handle before and after feeding.

By the way if your girl is gravid she might be going off feed for a while.

That's just it; its going to happen. I couldn't tell you how many times even the most docile of my snakes has decided to make my hand a personal target.

Again, wild animals, they have a mouth, they have teeth. You will get bit in your Ball Python Career.

THANKS all the SIRs and MA'AMs who posted, i think i'm done with this thread before it starts getting UGLY in here... ;) ;)

Its not getting ugly... again we are all just trying to help you....

Its a public forum, people are going to continue to post what they feel is useful information.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

All my hatchlings are "fight or flight", that's just nature. They think everything is out to kill them.
Anything else in my collection doesn't care. I handle before and after feeding.

By the way if your girl is gravid she might be going off feed for a while.

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She doesn't look gravid though build up look then the next day she's back to normal...

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Originally Posted by ECechoHO

She doesn't look gravid though build up look then the next day she's back to normal...

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That's what my Granite did to me for almost 5 years.
Got them pearly whites this year. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Montypython696

Its not getting ugly... again we are all just trying to help you....

Its a public forum, people are going to continue to post what they feel is useful information.

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VERY TRUE it's public just that my question was asked, answered and SOLVED so anymore input is irrelevant...

But was it really solved? You asked questions about shedding and feeding.

You replied with new information about shedding and feeding, and that you feed in a separate tank.

I'm not sure I would say its irrelevant, again we are trying to help you take care of your 'babies'.

just the shedding part is all i needed, she'll eat when she's ready <---just have to be the patient guy that i'm NOT..i asked about the shedding because that was delaying the feeding of the 4 but only 3 took em..so anyone else that mentions something they think is useful is the irrelevant part, because the issue has been solved already...;)