Hello everyone,
This is my first time posting on here, usually I use like...yahoo answers, but i'm not getting much help this morning. I ordered a "baby" ball python from underground reptiles on Tuesday hoping to get him wednesday...didn't happen. So we thought he'd be shipped Wednesday get him Thursday. Again didn't happen. We didn't receive him until Friday. Then he's in shed, and he kinda looks terrible, Friday he wasn't very active, I picked him up and he moved around a little but that was it. Yesterday I had a friend (who is the owner of 8 ball pythons) come over and she was kind of helping me get used to him, and he was a lot more active. But there were some things I'd like to ask about. First off, he peed/pooped...it was white and gross and smelled really bad. I heard they do that when they're scared, but either way it was really runny, my friend said it was pee, and she said it shouldn't have been that watery, and all these gross clumpy white....clumps came out. It was pretty gross, I wasn't sure if that was normal or not? And then the people at UR said he wasn't really a baby...more a juvenile, but they were feeding him hoppers, yet, my friend has smaller ones that she's been feeding weaned for, and I think that may be the reason for my ball pythons skinnyness...He's long, but he is really skinny, you can see his spine really easy and he should be more circular, I realize that with a company they probably have a lot of animals to feed, but to send one off in such a poor state bothers me. Spock (My snake) has also not drank since I got him Friday and I got him the extra large exo terra water bowl that way I wouldn't have to move up, and at first I thought he couldn't get into it, but he was moving around and yesterday he stood up kind of...and he was clearly tall enough to get in it. So he isn't drinking...I don't know if I should get a smaller water bowl...or...something. I plan on feeding him Next Friday. Also his tongue doesn't flick. AT ALL!!! Like when he's crawling around it doesn't do it. I've had him for 3 days now and I have never seen his tongue! I don't know what to do. My friends' snakes all do it, but Spock doesn't and I'm very scared I will lose him. He's my first B.P. He's also in shed, his eyes are blue and because he's in shed I feel like he probably doesn't feel too great but I would think he would at least be doing the tongue thing if not anything else. Insights on what to do?
Thank you so much!