My First Ever Ball Python, Indica!

HI! i just bought my first ever ball python, a pastel female I named indica! I bought her at a reptile show in tampa florida at the state fairgrounds. I got her from this guy Michael Cole who had a Panda Pie morph python, he said it was the only one in the world i thought that was cool.

anyway she was a very modest price, only 150.00$. one of the best looking pastels in the show IMO and the best price!

http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/k.../Indica439.jpg

there she is!

I handled her a little since I got her a few hours ago. only held her for a minute or so and she tucked her head under herself (that means she's scared right?) so i put her back in her tub. i read somewhere where i should wait a couple days after purchasing her before i handle her so that she is used to her new home. should this be so?

also im having trouble getting the humidity in the tub up to 50%. I misted pretty good and its still at 46%. any suggestions?

Are you sure your humidity is being measured right?

From looking at that enclosure, that looks like at least 80% humidity... if not higher, it is too wet.

Did you move your unit inside the enclosure?

One way to up humidity is to use a slightly larger dish (width NOT height). Decrease airholes (tape them from the OUTSIDE).

Bruce

PS: Nice snake... :)

PPS: Keep in mind, everytime you pop the hid your humidity is going to drop. So any changes made are going to take at least a few hours to register, as the water needs to evaporate and reach equilibrium.

Well that guy lied to you about being the only one with a Panda Pied... there are at least 3 breeders I know that have produced one. I don't know if I would have bought a snake from a breeder who lies. :rolleyes:

It looks like your humidity is really high with all that condensation actually or is that because you just misted it?

Very nice pastel though! Congrats on your first BP!

The enclosure also looks a little large for a girl of that size. You're going to want to get her something a little smaller... or a coupla hides so she can tuck herself in and feel nice and safe.

:)thanks guys! glad u like her

yea i should have said i just misted minutes before i took that picture. thats why its so wet looking. i have 2 probes with accurite therm/hugrometers. one probe on the cool side one on the hot. the cool side says 46% humid and the hot 48%. temps are 80 on the cool side 87 degrees on the warm side.

if the humidity doesnt rise atall im gonna invest in a lil bigger water dish as bruce said.

also i plan on getter her another hide. only have one right now.

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Originally Posted by First_Phantom

:)thanks guys! glad u like her

yea i should have said i just misted minutes before i took that picture. thats why its so wet looking. i have 2 probes with accurite therm/hugrometers. one probe on the cool side one on the hot. the cool side says 46% humid and the hot 48%. temps are 80 on the cool side 87 degrees on the warm side.

if the humidity doesnt rise atall im gonna invest in a lil bigger water dish as bruce said.

also i plan on getter her another hide. only have one right now.

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The probes don't measure humidity, the units do. ;)

ahh okay! i put the unit inside and the humidity now says its in the high 70s! i have to fix this.

fixed! good thing u told me about that! tyvm:D

55% now

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Originally Posted by First_Phantom

55% now

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That's what you want ;)

http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/k...kbetter001.jpg
heres what the setup looks like now. just went to the store and got those 2 nice hides for alittle over a dollar each. should i still get a smaller tub?

Congrats on the pastel. I too just got home from the Tampa show and also bought a pastel from Mike Cole. It was my first show and i loved it. Anyway i think that tub should be fine due to the cozy-ness of the footprint. it's amazing what you can create with dollar store goodies. i made hides from plastic pot planters. anyway, congrats and :welcome: to the addiction.


one more thing... and i'll probably regret this but...
Koolaid - i spoke with mike about those other pics where people claimed to have created additional panda's. he says adamantly that he has the only one and the other claims are people who used his pic. now, i have not seen the other pictures and i don't want to sound like i am defending a man whom i just met... but it seems if this is a sore subject for those individuals... then the simple solution would be for them to post a pic standing beside the snake. i mean, if he claims he has the only one, and someone else has one too. then that would decrease the value of his, thus "doing him financial harm." so it would be in the additional peoples benifits to just prove it. just my humble opinion.

sorry for the :hijackd:

As far as I am aware of Michael Cole DOES have the only Panda Pied, produced by Ian G. I have several girls myself from Michael.

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http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/k...kbetter001.jpg
heres what the setup looks like now. just went to the store and got those 2 nice hides for alittle over a dollar each. should i still get a smaller tub?

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What most people do is set the "indoor" temp, instead of clock time. There's a button on the acu-rite that can change these two.

Most people have the unit on the cool side and have the probe go on top of the substrate under the hide. This way you only need one unit. ;)

Nice pastel:)

shes gorgeous!

Cute little pastel, welcome to the ball world!!! I just got my first bp last month as well, a female pastel also lol :)

there is a really easy way to tell if there really is only ONE panda pied... just look at where the black pattern is in all the pictures and see if its in the same spot... all the pictures i found the pattern is in the EXACT same spot, and shape.

It looks good. That little girl is going to be very happy in her new condo. :gj:

You could go with a shorter tub, I keep all mine short (as do most people). At most my adults get 6 inches or so.

But if she is content and not roaming around too much, then it is likely OK.

Bruce

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As far as I am aware of Michael Cole DOES have the only Panda Pied, produced by Ian G. I have several girls myself from Michael.

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QFT. Ian Produced it and Michael bought it. There are Super Cinny Ringers out there but no Super Black Pastel Pieds other then the one that Michael has.

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I got her from this guy Michael Cole who had a Panda Pie morph python, he said it was the only one in the world i thought that was cool.

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Are you saying that Michael Cole said that the Panda Pied is the only cool ball python morph? Or that you think that it is cool that the produced a morph that is the only one in the world?

I'm pretty sure he meant that he thinks it was cool that it was the only one in the world...