I think my ball python just likes to be different. You know, mix up the stereotype. He doesn't want to be like all my other BPs. Nah, that's not for him. Got this little guy a little while back. He came to me younger than advertised, with a crackly breath. Everything has been fixed after some vet visits and we've been going strong since.
But there's one way he's not like my other two BPs. He just... doesn't use his hides, haha.
I've tried moving the hides around. I've put the hides on his 'preferred' spots. I've tried different hides. I've quadruple checked the temps to make sure there's nothing wrong and that no area is too hot or too cool (there's a gradient from right to left of hot to cool side).
Nope. I'll come in a little while later and he will have either pushed the hides aside and resumed his favorite spot, or he will perch on top of them until they are moved, then go back to sitting out in the open.
Yet he is still eating at a fantastic rate now. He isn't flinchy or cruising. He's super calm when he comes out every now and then.
My other two are total hide hoarders. They'll stay in their hides until feeding day, then back in they go. Meanwhile, Paarthurnax just sits there like: "What's up? Is it feeding day? Nah? Okay that's cool. I'll be here if you need me"
(This isn't really a complaint at all. I've been trying different things for months now and he just seems to prefer no hide? Small hides, bigger hides, black PVC hides, 'natural' hides... Hides on the cool side, hides on the warm side... Unusually shaped hides... Nope. He's not having any of them.)
I'm just wondering if anybody else has BPs who are exhabitionists?
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