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Husbandry checkup please
Acquired a ball python yesterday, I've read a fair bit, but I'd really appreciate some opinions on her current setup.
This info from the vet who rescued her and gave her to me:
Born: October 2011
Acquired by vet: April 30th, 2012
5.1.12 shed
5.3.12 ate live fuzzy
5.4.12 ate live fuzzy
5.11.12 ate live fuzzy
5.18.12 ate live fuzzy
5.27.12 shed
5.31.12 ate killed fuzzy
6.7.12 ate thawed fuzzy
Weight on 6.12.12 88g.
She is currently in a 20x10x12 Zilla glass vivarium, which the vet gave me, it has clips to hold the mesh lid secure.
Bottom of viv is lined with paper towels, with this over the top, which fits the bottom snugly, just because I had it already, happy to switch it out.
She has this on it's side as a hide, again just because I already had it and it was an improvement on the cottage-cheese tub she had at the animal hospital which she wasn't keen on.
She has a small saucer-sized plastic tub, about 1 1/2 inches high, filled with 3/4 inch of water as a dish and bath.
At the moment we are using the lights that we were given with the vivarium kit that came with her, which are a day white light spot during the day, sat on the mesh over her hide, and a night black heat bulb next to it, which we cycle alternately for 12 hours. Although we only got her yesterday afternoon, so she just had the daylight bulb for a few hours, then the night bulb overnight, and the daylight bulb again today.
Last night temperatures on the Zilla disc thermometer on the viv floor were staying around 72-74F on the ground, and with the digital probe on the basking area at the top of her hide was 87-89F, the daylight bulb seems to keep similar temperatures, around a degree or two warmer on average.
The humidity on the Zilla disc is measuring a fairly steady 55%, the probe at the top of the hide/basking area is usually around 40%.
The vet said not to try feeding her for a week to give her time to settle in, and the caresheet he gave me says not to try handling for 2 days for the same reason. I'd like to order some food for her today, but I also don't want to disturb her to figure out how big her food should be compared to her body! So what do you think for an 8 month old female? I'm assuming smallish fuzzy rats...
Here are a few pictures from yesterday as soon as we got her home, they are pretty rubbish because I didn't want to freak her out too much! I still haven't handled her at all. She curled up in a ball on one side of the viv until about 8pm, then she started exploring carefully. This morning she was tucked up carefully in the hide and barely visible.




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