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Hello and Possible Help!
Hi all! I'm new here I've had reptiles before (corn snakes, tree frogs, and leopard gecko when I was a kid), but I just got my first ball python last week. She's a 2yo, regular morph BP named Minnie Pearl.
Here's the story:
She was very calm when I first got her, let me immediately get her from the tank in the pet shop, and just kind of hung out. Got her home, same thing, until she took a bite out of my husband (who isn't overly fond of snakes to begin with, he has a red footed tortoise named Frank). She had been fed 5days before, but we wanted to see if maybe she was hungry again (causing the random bite, she was literally sitting in his arms and then all of a sudden got tagged his thumb). So, I got her a small rat, and she immediately ate it.
She was super active until Saturday night (fed her Friday morning), then she climbed into her log on the hot side of her tank (I keep the tank at ~88-90 on the warm side and ~76-78 on the cool--she'd been avoiding the hot side until this) and has literally not moved since. The only movement has been a single flinch this morning when I got some water on her when I sprayed her tank down (it's dry in Colorado, so I have to mist her tank to try and get the humidity to hit ~55--the damn tortoise is even harder to keep at ~70 lol).
I have a feeling I should be worried, I thought I was keeping her warm enough?
Also, she hasn't gone to the bathroom (at all) or had any water (since Saturday morning).
Any advice/help/reassurance would be greatly appreciated!
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