juvenile ball python WILL NOT EAT!!

[dextersmom]

Just want to say I know how frustrating it is to be new at keeping BPs, also that "too many cooks spoil the broth" so I'll let you rely on Deborah...

For a "baby" (hatchling) BP, mouse pinkies are way too small (they can get stuck on their teeth as they try to eat them) & even a rat pink would have been too small.
Don't worry, you'll get all this...BPs are NOT easy beginner snakes, but so many are encouraged to start with them because they're docile, stay a nice size & are pretty.
They don't always tell you they need so much monitoring as to temps. & humidity, with more cage warmth than many other choices, and that while they usually eat
reliably when young, they frustrate many keepers as adults when they fast unpredictably (not always in winter) & can be very fussy eaters. Welcome to "the club".

Thank you so much for the understanding and kind words!

[Bogertophis]

Thank you so much for the understanding and kind words!

Despite what you may have wondered, we're glad to have you join us...it's easier when you have experienced ppl to talk things over with, not like when I first got
into keeping snakes: there were no forums, & all library books were from the age of dinosaurs... -It seems so primitive now, to think we actually had to TALK to
each other... Anyway, it will get easier.... and snakes are addicting, even when they frustrate us.

[Craiga 01453]

I just want to apologize. I could have come across nicer.

[Danger noodles]

I just want to apologize. I could have come across nicer.

Yeah I was going to post earlier but I couldn’t. U came across as an ... well u know.


op sometimes it’s hard to understand Anyone when they are typing. We’re here to help and we do have the best advice out there on bp’s! So plz stay around and don’t argue about the details that deb gave u because she is the queen here with these spicy noodles!

Third, the community shouldn’t be running newbs off by offending them. If they are here to ask for help then they have the most important thing done, they care. So plz stop throwing stones from your glass house people.