What do you do with Babies?

[Jnksnakes]

In a year or two all of my ball pythons should be of breeding size. I am curious what you guys do with your babies once they hatch? I have seem some people put them immediately into their own separate tub with water dishes\substrate, I have seen some people house them all in one tub until after their first shed. What are the Norms? Also, After they hatch it's 7-10 days until they shed correct? Do you feed as soon as they shed or wait a few days after that ?

[rufretic]

I keep mine in the same tub with wet paper towels in my incubator until they shed. Then they each go in their own tray in my rack. I feed mouse hoppers about a week after first shed and have about a 95% success rate with the first feed. I’ve tried a day or two after first shed but only about 10% took that early for me so now I just wait a week.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Together in a tub with damps paper towel until first shed, after that in their own individual tub.

[Jnksnakes]

Thanks guys. Not a whole lot of information on the care of newborns online as opposed to adults.

[Bogertophis]

I've raised various kinds of snakes (no BPs though) and done it both ways: leave them together for a while, separating them at LEAST by the time they shed, or
separating them immediately. It doesn't seem to matter, the only exception was the rosy boas I used to raise...many of them were so feisty (biting me & each
other!) so I had to separate them at one day old, & many of them even took pinkies then (before shedding)??? Sassy ones, definitely would have survived had
they been wild, & fyi, both their parents were unrelated wild-caught rescues (-unwanted by original "owners"). You think of rosy boas as being so mellow.

[Jnksnakes]

Ive never owned Rosy boas before. Might get into them one day.

[GalaxyMom]

I keep mine in the same tub with wet paper towels in my incubator until they shed. Then they each go in their own tray in my rack. I feed mouse hoppers about a week after first shed and have about a 95% success rate with the first feed. I’ve tried a day or two after first shed but only about 10% took that early for me so now I just wait a week.

What temps do do you have them? Do you use a UTH, or a heat lamp on top? Do you measure the floor temp, or the ambient temp, or both?

Thank you in advance!
Laila Q.

[rufretic]

What temps do do you have them? Do you use a UTH, or a heat lamp on top? Do you measure the floor temp, or the ambient temp, or both?

Thank you in advance!
Laila Q.

They are in the incubator for the first week so ambient temp is 87, no hot spot. Once they go in my rack, it’s heated with heat tape and the hot spot is set at 90, no other heat source. Ambient stays around 75 in the rack.