I just fed!!

Well I don't know if I did something wrong but right before I fed my ball I decided to clean out his space and now after I fed him I put him in and now he looks uneasy. Did I do it wrong? Should I have waited? What do I do to make his home feel more like his old setup?

What did you use to clean it out?

All I did was take out his old substate and replace it with fresh stuff I cleaned out his water and moved around the hide and the fake plant stuff he just looked confused

Mine do the same thing there just getting use to the new digs dont worry its all good. there looking for a good spot to poop haha :D

Well in that case I don't think I have ever seen my ball poop! What does it look like and keep in mind I have only have had him/her for only a month and I have never seen what the poop looks like. So then that will lead to my next question. How do I know that he/she is okay? I mean do they poop all the time or once every blue moon?

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Well in that case I don't think I have ever seen my ball poop! What does it look like and keep in mind I have only have had him/her for only a month and I have never seen what the poop looks like. So then that will lead to my next question. How do I know that he/she is okay? I mean do they poop all the time or once every blue moon?

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These questions should have been asked BEFORE the purchase of the ball python!

Yeah I guess! But lets say you had a baby, do you just take it home and know how to be a parent? Or do you take it home and learn as you go along? I didn't have the time to learn all that there is to learn about ball pythons. But I figured I will learn as I go and also there is this wonderful thing called the internet that I can learn from as well. So if your comment that you posted wasnt gonna help me JASBALLS I suggest never writing a comment for any of my questions again! Now those people that are cool and would like to help me learn the things I need to learn please feel free to comment and THANKS FOR ALL THOSE THAT TRY TO HELP!

take it easy on him come on hes just getting into it hes learning they dont poop very often mine go i would say like once every two weeks or so haha i dont really know i dont keep track. but just look around this site and learn its alot to take in but trust me its addicting :gj:

yeah I know I have just bought a digital thermometer/hygrometer becuase I read it here on this site and Im not going nuts on him I just feel if Im asking a serious question I should get a serious answer kinda like how you responded to me. What color is the poop? or does it vary?

haha were talking about poop here its brown and very harry thats about it and it smells

Poo is brown. They poo when they do; younger royals poo more often than older royals. :P
Given their brain structure, I always keep the hides, etc in the same place after the cleaning as it was before the cleaning. :D
Also, you don't need to feed the snake outside of the enclosure and most believe it to be less stressful and more natural for the snake to ambush the prey from their hide and/or environment. :gj:

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yeah I know I have just bought a digital thermometer/hygrometer becuase I read it here on this site and Im not going nuts on him I just feel if Im asking a serious question I should get a serious answer kinda like how you responded to me. What color is the poop? or does it vary?

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Check here, there's a poo pic lower down on the page.

Check here, they talk about how often they do it.

Hope that helps.

I agree starmom your so smart haha :gj: but yes shes right its easyer on the snake all that moving around can cause stress

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haha were talking about poop...and it smells

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It's funny cause my kids tell everybody the poo stinks but what poo doesn't? (Well, I guess fish poo doesn't..... :rolleyes: )

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I agree starmom your so smart ....

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I need a kid like you around my house.....!! :D

hahahaha this is about as close as i will get is threw this site :gj: starting to become my family haha

then I will say im positve I have not seen my snake poo! What does that mean?

well if this was your first feeding give it a week or so and im sure you will have a nice big steamy load to clean up haha :gj:

Mine pooped about a month after I got it, but just barely any.

Then just a week and a half ago it let out a major poo'. I have had it since February.

No I have fed him like 6 times and still I have not seen a load like in that pic! i have not seen or smelled anything! now im worried :(

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No I have fed him like 6 times and still I have not seen a load like in that pic! i have not seen or smelled anything! now im worried :(

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Now what Drew? :rolleyes:

Jasball im not trying to start anything man im just trying to help a new person out its good to see new people get into the hobby so it will continue to thrive, give it another week with no poo might be time to take it to the vet just a question did you get the snake from petsmart, petco?

Petsmart

Lets just say they are known for not keeping reptiles in the best of care like i said give it a week and see what happens he might not of been fed by them so just give it some time and see what happens

Cool man! Thanks for the info!

no problem just trying to help :gj:

Maybe I missed it, but how often are you feeding? That could play a part in it too. If you've fed him 6 times but closer together, then his system may not have had time to work through it all yet. They tend to let it all build up and then let it go in one big dump.

You can try soaking him in warm water (remember that because they are cold-blooded, "warm" to us can be scalding to them. So be careful about water temp. Keep it in the mid 80s I would guess.) The warm water sometimes relaxes them enough to allow them to pass waste.

I wouldn't be too concerned about it though. If he goes a couple of months without a BM, then I would schedule a trip to the vet. Otherwise, it seems normal to me. My girl is perfectly healthy and she doesn't poop very often at all. She'll pass urates semi-regularly, but hold poops for a month or two at a time. Makes cleaning easy. :P

If that is your snake in the avatar, and that is the size meals he is getting, THAT is why he isn't defecating. He is using all of his energy to digest that tiny mouse, which has no nutrition at all. He's not going to defecate unless you actually feed him something worthwhile.

I would suggest NOT buying the frozen mice from Petsmart. They are overpriced and incredibly tiny. $10 for 3 is rediculous..

Find a place that sells small to medium adult mice, and give him one of those every 5-7 days. Only tiny hatchlings right out of the egg are going to eat hopper mice(not even those fuzzies you're feeding). After a few meals, they get started on small adults and worked up as they grow. If you continue to feed him the fuzzy mice, he will end up stunted and underweight.